Niue has issued licensed Pokémon coinage since the early 2000s, leveraging its status as a sovereign Pacific island nation with its own ISO 4217 currency code to enter the collectible legal-tender market. The arrangement allowed Nintendo's intellectual property to appear on coins with genuine monetary status — something no major mint would have accommodated at the time.
KM#141 is among the earliest pieces in that licensing program.
Niue has issued licensed Pokémon coinage since the early 2000s, leveraging its status as a sovereign Pacific island nation with its own ISO 4217 currency code to enter the collectible legal-tender market. The arrangement allowed Nintendo's intellectual property to appear on coins with genuine monetary status — something no major mint would have accommodated at the time.
KM#141 is among the earliest pieces in that licensing program.