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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Reverse description | Full-color photographic depiction of Neo, the protagonist of the 1999 film The Matrix, portrayed in a black suit and dark wraparound sunglasses, with his right hand raised in a commanding stop gesture directed toward the viewer. Numerous suspended white spheres representing bullets frozen in mid-air surround the figure against a textured golden-brown background, evoking the film's iconic bullet-dodging sequence. The official film logo THE MATRIX is rendered in raised metallic silver lettering across the lower portion of the field, incorporating the stylized typeface of the franchise. The overall composition blends color printing with applied relief elements. |
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| Edge | Reeded with lettering |
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Niue has functioned since the 1990s as a licensing vehicle for the New Zealand-administered collector coin market, lending its sovereign status to pop-culture themed issues under agreements that route revenue back to the island's government — one of the smallest national economies on earth, with a population under 2,000. The Matrix license, tied to the 2021 release of The Matrix Resurrections, places this coin squarely in a promotional wave coordinated around that film's December debut.
KM#4872 is one of dozens of similar Niue issues from that year alone.