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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Westminster Abbey
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of the Coronation Chair (King Edward's Chair) housed in Westminster Abbey, shown in three-quarter perspective with two heraldic lions supporting its base. The chair is flanked on either side by elaborate geometric Gothic tracery patterns referencing the Abbey's stonework, filling the field with a decorative lattice of triangular and hexagonal motifs. Below the chair, the designer's initials 'td' appear at lower left, followed by the inscription ''ALL THIS I PROMISE TO DO'' rendered in raised lettering across the lower portion of the field, a direct quotation from Queen Elizabeth II's coronation oath. The overall composition commemorates the coronation ceremony and the historic role of Westminster Abbey. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Niue has issued commemorative coinage under licensing arrangements since the 1970s, functioning essentially as a mint vehicle for foreign distributors rather than producing coins for domestic circulation. This Westminster Abbey piece is one of hundreds of such issues — the island's GDP and population make a sovereign coinage program absurd on practical grounds, and that is precisely the point.
KM#938 sits in a catalog crowded with Niuean commemoratives that share the same copper-nickel specification, the same diameter, and the same issuing fiction.