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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Koala
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a full-color photographic-style depiction of two koalas — a young joey and an adult — rendered in naturalistic brown and grey tones. Small animal paw-print motifs are scattered across the upper field. The series title WORLD CUTEST PUPPIES arcs across the upper portion of the field, with the date 2014 positioned to the left and the subject inscription KOALA along the lower left. The composition is framed by a plain silver rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | WORLD CUTEST PUPPIES 2014 KOALA |
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Niue has long served as a licensing hub for foreign coin programs, and this issue is a product of that arrangement — struck not to meet any domestic monetary need but as a collectible marketed internationally. The koala motif places it within a crowded field of Australian wildlife-themed issues produced for the Pacific island nation, most of which were distributed through third-party dealers and never approached Niue at all.
Silver-plated copper-nickel rather than solid silver — worth noting for buyers who encounter these alongside genuinely precious-metal strikes in the same series.