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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Ali Baba and 40 Thieves
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | TWO DOLLARS PUBLIC SEAL OF NIUE ATUA NIUE TUKULAGI 2019 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 oz 999 FINE SILVER |
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Niue has operated as a de facto license plate for the international bullion and collector-coin industry since the 1990s, leasing its sovereign issuing authority to foreign mints — primarily Perth and a handful of European producers — with little connection to the island's 1,600-odd residents. This piece is part of a broader fairy-tale and folklore series capitalizing on the nosaic appeal of fine silver rounds dressed as legal tender.
The Ali Baba narrative derives from Antoine Galland's early 18th-century French interpolation into One Thousand and One Nights — it has no verified Arabic manuscript source and was likely Galland's own invention, or drawn from oral tradition he encountered in Syria around 1709.