2 Dollars - Charles III Blinky

Blinky Bill, the anthropomorphic koala created by Dorothy Wall in 1933, has had a complicated publishing history — the original books went through multiple rights disputes and were substantially altered in later editions. This Niuean issue is one of several Pacific island commemoratives leveraging Australian cultural nostalgia, a licensing model that has made Niue one of the more prolific coin issuers of the 21st century despite a population under 2,000.