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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Tree of Luck
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II after the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicted with a diademed and draped bust. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left field and NIUE ISLAND along the upper right, with a dotted border framing the design. Below the portrait in the lower field, the denomination and date read 1 DOLLAR 2016, flanked by the engraver's initials IRB beneath the bust and the fineness mark Ag 999 to the right. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Niue has functioned since the 1990s as a licensing vehicle for foreign coin programs, its sovereign status providing legal tender authority while actual distribution is handled entirely by private minting firms — in this case almost certainly the Polish Mint, which produced the bulk of Niue's novelty silver issues during this period. The "Tree of Luck" belongs to a broader wave of shaped and themed one-ounce silver coins that flooded the collector market in the mid-2010s, issued under Pacific micro-state imprimaturs specifically because those jurisdictions asked few questions and charged modest licensing fees.
Collector demand collapsed for many of these issues within two to three years of release as the secondary market became saturated.