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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Alice
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#2915 |
| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear truncated below the bust. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field and NIUE along the upper field, while TWO DOLLARS descends along the right field. The date 2018 is inscribed in the lower exergue. The portrait presents the Queen adorned with a tiara and pearl earring, rendered in fine detail against a polished field. |
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| Mintage | 2018 - Proof - 10,000 |
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Niue's numismatic program is essentially a licensing operation — the island nation of roughly 1,600 people generates meaningful revenue by lending its sovereign issuing authority to commemorative series produced entirely for the collector market. This particular piece belongs to a wave of Lewis Carroll-themed silver issues that flooded the market in the mid-2010s, timed loosely to the 150th anniversary of the 1865 first publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Carroll's estate holds no copyright claim — the work has been in the public domain for over a century — making the imagery cheap to license and extremely popular with themed collector series worldwide.