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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II NIUE 2022 IRB 5 DOLLARS 2 OZ 9999 FINE SILVER |
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| Mintage | 2022 - Proof - 333 |
| Additional information |
Niue has functioned as a legal tender licensing platform for decades, with the New Zealand-administered island's coin program generating revenue almost entirely through collector sales rather than circulation. The KM#5148 issue is one of dozens of bullion-adjacent releases Niue produces annually under agreements with private minting houses — in this case almost certainly the New Zealand Mint, which holds a long-standing contract for Niue's silver program.
At two troy ounces of four-nines silver, the specification mirrors the weight class increasingly favored by bullion-collector crossover buyers since roughly 2015, when demand for oversized silver issues began outpacing standard one-ounce formats in secondary market volume.