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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Black Swans
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait, wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl drop earring. The bust is truncated at the shoulder and set within a raised central field, surrounded by a wide outer border with a beaded inner rim. The legend ELIZABETH II flanks the upper left, NIUE appears at the top, TWO DOLLARS arcs along the right, and the date 2009 is positioned at the bottom, all in raised capital letters against a darkened background. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Niue's bullion and commemorative programs expanded rapidly in the late 2000s as the island territory leveraged its New Zealand-backed monetary status to attract collector mintages with no domestic circulation intent whatsoever. The black swan series tapped into post-2008 financial crisis anxiety — Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan had been published in 2007, and the concept of catastrophic unpredictable events was acutely resonant the year this coin was struck.
KM#210 is a New Zealand Mint product; Niue itself has no minting facility.