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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II George S. Patton
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON · DEFENDER OF FREEDOM 5 DOLLARS "FORWARD" |
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Niue's early commemorative program in the late 1980s and early 1990s leaned heavily on American military figures, issued under a licensing arrangement that gave the tiny Pacific island territory a revenue stream while producing coins with essentially no connection to its own history. Patton was a logical commercial choice — his notoriety in the United States guaranteed collector interest, particularly among a generation for whom the 1970 George C. Scott film had cemented the general's mythology.
KM#31 is copper-nickel, not silver, which places it firmly in the souvenir tier of the series rather than the bullion-adjacent issues Niue also produced concurrently.