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1000 Dollars - Elizabeth II Gracia Patricia: 60th Wedding Anniversary
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left rim and NIUE along the upper rim, with the denomination 1000 DOLLARS to the right, all in raised Latin lettering against a mirror-polished field. The date 2016 appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Niue has long operated as one of the Pacific's most prolific bullion and commemorative licensing jurisdictions, issuing coins under its name while having no meaningful domestic coin economy. This piece — five troy ounces of .9999 gold — marks the 2007 marriage anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, a union that survived abdication crisis fallout, postwar austerity, and sixty years of public scrutiny.
Philip died in April 2021 at 99, making issues commemorating the marriage increasingly retrospective in character.