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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Baby Tiger
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Reverse description | Three-dimensional sculpted reverse of the reclining baby tiger, depicting the body in high relief with elaborate engraved floral and mandala decorations across the haunches and flanks. Smaller scattered floral rosettes and scrolling vine motifs fill the remaining field of the body surface. The frosted gold-plated cast silver finish gives the design a warm, lustrous appearance throughout. |
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| Mintage | 2022 - Frosted - 888 |
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Niue's sovereign coinage program is essentially a licensing operation — the island's GDP would fit inside a mid-sized coin dealer's annual turnover, and its "numismatic sovereignty" exists primarily as a vehicle for New Zealand-managed collector issues sold almost entirely to overseas markets. This particular 2022 baby tiger piece is one of dozens of themed silver rounds issued under Niue's name annually, with production and distribution handled by external minting houses targeting the lunar series collector market in the year of the Tiger.
KM#4859 confirms catalog recognition, but meaningful mintage or provenance detail for this issue remains thin in the standard references.