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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | POKÉMON™ Gotta catch 'em all™ MEOWTH™ #52 $1 TM & © 2001 NINTENDO |
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Niue has long operated as one of the more commercially aggressive issuers of licensed novelty coinage, leveraging its status as a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand to enter currency agreements with foreign minting operations. This Meowth dollar is part of a early-2000s wave of Pokémon-licensed issues that Niue produced as the franchise was at peak saturation in Western markets — collectibles aimed squarely at the secondary market, with negligible circulation on the island itself, whose population at the time was under 2,000.