1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Johannes Gutenberg

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.