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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Long-nosed Butterfly Fish
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, set against a deeply mirrored proof field. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the upper left faceted border, NIUE along the upper right, and the date 1999 along the lower right, all separated by raised dots. The engraver's initials RDM appear below the truncation of the bust. The heptagonal planchet frames the portrait with a raised rim on all seven sides. |
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| Obverse lettering | ·ELIZABETH II NIUE·1999· RDM |
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Niue's late-1990s wildlife coin program was produced almost entirely for the collector market, with the island nation's numismatic output during this period licensed through external distributors rather than driven by any domestic monetary need. Actual circulation on Niue was essentially zero.
The Long-nosed Butterflyfish (Forcipiger flavissimus) ranges across the Indo-Pacific and was a recurring subject in Pacific island collector coinage of this era, appearing on issues from multiple jurisdictions within a few years of each other.