1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Pippi Longstocking

Niue has long operated as a prolific licensing hub for commemorative silver issues, contracting with the New Zealand Mint to produce collector pieces under agreements that would be impossible for most sovereign mints to arrange. This coin exists because Astrid Lindgren's estate — administered through the Astrid Lindgren Company in Stockholm — extended character licensing to numismatic products, something the estate has historically managed with notable selectivity.

Lindgren wrote the first Pippi manuscript in 1944 as a birthday gift for her daughter Karin, after the character name was coined by Karin herself at age seven during a bout of illness.