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250 Dollars - Elizabeth II Steamboat Willie
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left arc and NIUE along the upper field, with the denomination 250 DOLLARS disposed along the right arc. The date 2020 appears in the lower field. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a finely brushed proof field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Steamboat Willie, the 1928 Mickey Mouse short that saved Walt Disney's studio from financial collapse following the loss of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit character to Universal, entered the public domain on January 1, 2024 — but this coin predates that moment by four years, issued while the character was still fully under copyright. Niue has operated one of the more commercially aggressive bullion licensing programs of any small Pacific nation, leveraging its New Zealand Crown dependency status to issue legal tender struck by the New Zealand Mint.
The KM#4032 reference places it firmly within a crowded Disney licensing run from that mint.