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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Year of the Dragon
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 2012 - Proof |
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Niue's bullion and commemorative dollar program has functioned primarily as a revenue-generating licensing arrangement since the 1990s, with the New Zealand government handling monetary affairs while the Pobjoy Mint and others produce coins that never circulate on the island's roughly 1,600-person population. This piece belongs to the Chinese lunar series that flooded the market in the early 2010s, when dozens of small sovereign issuers competed for the same collector demographic.
The 2012 lunar dragon year generated unusually high demand across all issuing authorities — dragon years consistently outsell other zodiac entries.