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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Steamboat Willie

Issuer Niue
Year 2014
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Engraver(s) Ian Rank-Broadley
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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Niue has long operated as a licensing vehicle for third-party intellectual property coinages, and this piece is a direct product of a 2014 arrangement between the New Zealand Overseas Territory and Disney. The timing was deliberate: 2014 marked 85 years since the 1928 theatrical release of Steamboat Willie, the short that established synchronized sound as a commercial necessity in animation and made Mickey Mouse a global property.

At 7.78 g of .9999 fine gold, the specification matches a quarter-ounce format — priced and marketed squarely at collector-investors rather than circulation.

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