Tokelau — three Pacific atolls with no indigenous coinage tradition and a collective population under 1,500 — began issuing collector coins in the 1990s under a licensing arrangement that routes production through the New Zealand Mint. The territory has no monetary authority of its own; its numismatic program exists purely as a revenue stream for the administering government. This piece belongs to an Apostles series that leaned heavily into the high-karat, large-format gold market popular with Chinese and Southeast Asian collectors in the early 2010s.
Tokelau — three Pacific atolls with no indigenous coinage tradition and a collective population under 1,500 — began issuing collector coins in the 1990s under a licensing arrangement that routes production through the New Zealand Mint. The territory has no monetary authority of its own; its numismatic program exists purely as a revenue stream for the administering government. This piece belongs to an Apostles series that leaned heavily into the high-karat, large-format gold market popular with Chinese and Southeast Asian collectors in the early 2010s.
KM#93 has a mintage reported at 99 pieces.