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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Posthumous, Year of the Rabbit: Bugs Bunny
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Weight | 93.3 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II NIUE TEN DOLLARS IRB 2023 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Niue has long licensed Warner Bros. characters for its legal tender coinage, a revenue arrangement that has nothing to do with numismatics and everything to do with the island's GDP. This particular piece conflates the Chinese lunisolar calendar's Year of the Rabbit with a Looney Tunes property — a marketing decision made possible by the fact that Niue's coinage authority operates almost entirely as a bullion and novelty licensing vehicle, with the island's roughly 1,500 residents having no practical use for a 93-gram silver coin.
As a posthumous Elizabeth II issue, it falls into the transitional period when many Commonwealth mints were still clearing approved designs bearing her effigy.