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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing a pearl drop earring, after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left peripheral field, NIUE along the upper field, and 250 DOLLARS along the right peripheral field. The date 2020 appears in the lower field below the portrait. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Niue has leveraged its currency-issuing rights under a free association agreement with New Zealand to become one of the most prolific licensing mints in the Pacific, striking legal tender coins for everything from Disney characters to Star Wars properties. This piece was issued under a licensing arrangement with Lucasfilm, by then a Disney subsidiary, as part of a broader collector series.
One troy ounce of .9999 fine gold dressed in franchise IP — the coin's legal tender face value of 250 NZD is purely nominal against its bullion content, a fiction the market ignores entirely.