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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II King Cnut
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Runic |
| Reverse lettering | KING CNUT |
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King Cnut — ruler of England, Denmark, and Norway simultaneously from around 1028 — is an odd subject for a Niuean commemorative, but the Pacific island nation has built a cottage industry issuing silver collector pieces for the European historical market since the 1990s. This coin belongs to that commercial pipeline, produced for the numismatic trade rather than any organic connection between Niue and eleventh-century Scandinavian kingship.
Cnut's own coinage, struck across dozens of English mints, was among the most sophisticated monetary infrastructure in northern Europe at the time — a pointed contrast to this two-ounce modern issue struck purely as a collectible.