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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Sun Wukong
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#3809 |
| Obverse description | Crowned and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in high relief against an elaborately sculpted field decorated with swirling auspicious clouds in the Chinese artistic tradition. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the lower field, with the issuer name NIUE and denomination 2 DOLLARS arranged vertically to the right, flanked by stylised feather and floral motifs. The fineness mark Ag999 appears in the lower right field, and the date 2020 is struck below the denomination. |
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| Mintage | 2020 - Antiqued - 500 |
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Niue has functioned since the 1990s as a licensing vehicle for the New Zealand Mint, issuing legal tender coins under its sovereignty that are designed, struck, and sold entirely abroad — the island's own population hovers around 1,600 people. This piece belongs to a broader Chinese Myths and Legends series targeting collector markets in East Asia and the diaspora, where Sun Wukong's cultural reach across centuries of operatic, literary, and now cinematic tradition makes him commercially reliable.
The underlying legal tender status is nominal; no example has ever changed hands on Niue itself.