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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Hachiko
| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, depicting the fourth definitive portrait as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley, showing the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left periphery, NIUE appears at the top, and ONE DOLLAR along the right periphery, with the date 2016 positioned at the bottom of the field. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation of the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hachiko, the Akita dog who waited at Shibuya Station daily for nearly ten years after his owner Hidesaburo Ueno died in 1925, became a national symbol in Japan well before his own death in 1935. Niue has issued a long-running series of collector coins on Japanese cultural themes, largely targeting the Japanese numismatic gift market, where such pieces sell through specialty dealers and department store coin counters rather than through conventional numismatic channels.
The KM# 201 assignment places this within a dense run of Niue commemoratives from the mid-2010s, a period when the island's licensing agreements with foreign distributors were producing dozens of themed issues annually.