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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse lettering | NIUE 2015 ELIZABETH II IRB БЕРЕЗОВО БЕЛОЯРСКИЙ НЯГАНЬ ЮГОРСК КОГАЛЫМ РАДУЖНЫЙ СУРГУТ ХАНТЫ-МАНСИЙСК НИЖНЕВАРТОВСК УРАЙ НЕФТЕЮГАНСК 1 DOLLAR |
| Reverse description | Central device comprises the full-color enamelled coat of arms of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (Yugra), depicting a quartered shield in blue and green with a stylized white ornamental design at centre, surmounted by a crown and flanked by green laurel branches tied at the base with a blue ribbon bearing the inscription ЮГРА in white Cyrillic lettering. The shield and wreath rest against a mirror-polished field ornamented with traditional indigenous geometric patterns in relief. The Cyrillic legend ХАНТЫ-МАНСИЙСКИЙ arcs along the upper rim and АВТОНОМНЫЙ ОКРУГ - ЮГРА along the lower rim, completing the heraldic composition. |
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Niue has operated as a platform for third-party commemorative programs since the 1990s, licensing its sovereign status to mint issues that have no circulation relevance to the island's roughly 1,600 residents. This piece is part of that commercial framework — produced for the collector market and themed around the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, known as Yugra, a resource-rich region of western Siberia whose oil revenues have funded a surprising range of cultural promotion projects abroad, including numismatic commissions.