2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Riga Rooster

Niue has leveraged its status as a Cook Islands-adjacent Pacific microstate with New Zealand currency ties to become one of the more prolific novelty bullion issuers of the 21st century, striking legal tender coins for collectors worldwide under licensing arrangements that have little to do with the island's 1,600-person economy. This piece belongs to a series celebrating the Riga Rooster, the weathervane atop St. Peter's Church in Latvia's capital — a landmark that survived Soviet occupation only to be destroyed in 1941 and meticulously reconstructed in 1990.