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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 1000 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.