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2 Dollars 50 Cents - Elizabeth II The Band Concert
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 2.5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, executed after Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth definitive portrait. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the left field, while 'NIUE' and the denomination '2 DOLLARS 50 CENTS' are distributed across the upper periphery. The date '2016' appears in the lower exergual area. The engraver's initials 'IRB' are incused at the base of the truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II NIUE 2 DOLLARS 50 CENTS IRB 2016 |
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The Band Concert, released in 1935, was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon produced in Technicolor and the first Disney short to feature Donald Duck. Niue has used its status as a Pacific Island nation with treaty-minting rights to issue a long-running series of fractional gold pieces tied to Disney properties — an arrangement that functions primarily as a bullion collectible program rather than anything approaching genuine circulation coinage. At 0.5 grams of .9999 fine gold, the economics of actual exchange were never the point.