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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Tahitians
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II, after the effigy designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupying the central and right portion of the rectangular flan against a mirror-polished field. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation. The denomination 2 DOLLARS is inscribed along the upper edge, ELIZABETH II runs vertically along the left border, and NIUE ISLAND runs vertically along the right border. The date 2019 is positioned along the lower left, while the fineness and weight inscription Ag 999 2oz appears in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | Full-color reproduction of Paul Gauguin's 1892 painting 'Nafea Faa Ipoipo' (When Will You Marry?) occupying the central field of the rectangular flan, depicting two Tahitian women seated in a lush tropical landscape rendered in Gauguin's characteristic Post-Impressionist palette. The figure in the foreground wears a white missionary dress and a flower behind her ear, while the seated figure behind her is dressed in a vibrant red-patterned garment. The composition is framed by a decorative border along all four edges. The reverse carries no additional lettering. |
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Niue's licensing arrangement with the New Zealand Mint has produced hundreds of collector issues since the 1990s, with the island's legal tender framework used almost exclusively as a vehicle for numismatic exports — virtually none of these pieces circulate domestically. The Tahitians series draws on Paul Gauguin's Pacific paintings, issued a century after his death reshaped how Western art markets valued Polynesian imagery.
The 2 troy ounce format places this firmly in the bullion-collector crossover market that expanded sharply after 2010.