5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Long-nosed Butterfly Fish

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.