Niue has built one of the more commercially aggressive licensing programs in modern numismatics, partnering with major entertainment properties to produce legal tender coins under its sovereignty. This piece is part of a series tied to the Lord of the Rings franchise, with New Zealand Mint handling production — the geographic proximity to the films' production home giving the arrangement a neat, if coincidental, logic.
Niue has built one of the more commercially aggressive licensing programs in modern numismatics, partnering with major entertainment properties to produce legal tender coins under its sovereignty. This piece is part of a series tied to the Lord of the Rings franchise, with New Zealand Mint handling production — the geographic proximity to the films' production home giving the arrangement a neat, if coincidental, logic.