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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | (mw) Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska),Warsaw, Poland (1766-date) |
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| Additional information |
Niue's high-denomination collector issues of this period were produced under a licensing arrangement that allowed private minting firms — primarily the New Zealand Mint — to strike bullion and numismatic pieces using Niue's issuing authority in exchange for a royalty fee paid to the island government. The arrangement is entirely fiscal; Niue's GDP at the time was roughly on par with the face value of a handful of these coins.
At 500 grams of .9999 gold, the metal content alone at 2013 spot prices vastly exceeded the nominal $3,000 face value — a figure chosen for legal tender status, not transactional reality.