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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Mask of Tutankhamun
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II NIUE ISLAND 1 DOLLAR IRB 2022 |
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| Mintage | 2022 - Proof - 3,000 |
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Niue has functioned since the 1990s as a licensing vehicle for commemorative issues that have no relationship to its 1,600-person population or its economy. This piece is one of hundreds struck under that arrangement, where the Pacific territory's minting rights are leased to produce collectibles marketed primarily to European and North American buyers.
The Tutankhamun tomb discovery centennial in 2022 — one hundred years after Howard Carter's November 1922 entry into KV62 — generated a predictable wave of licensed numismatic product across multiple issuing authorities simultaneously.