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| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupies the central field against a frosted background. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation, accompanied by the mint mark and the fineness mark Ag 999 to the lower right. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left and NIUE ISLAND along the upper right, both separated from the inner field by a finely beaded border. The denomination 1 DOLLAR and the date 2018 are inscribed along the lower arc within the beaded border, completing the circular legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II NIUE ISLAND IRB mw Ag 999 · 1 DOLLAR 2018 · |
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Niue has operated as a prolific licensing vehicle for commemorative coinage since the 1990s, contracting with various minting houses to produce collector issues sold primarily in European markets. Gutenberg's relevance here is purely commercial — his 15th-century development of movable type in Mainz made him a recognizable name for the German-speaking collector demographic that drives much of this segment's sales.
The KM# 266 assignment places this squarely within a crowded catalog of similar Niue silver dollars from the same production cycle.