Tokelau — three Pacific atolls with a combined land area under 12 square kilometers and a population that has never exceeded 1,500 — issues coins through an arrangement with New Zealand, which administers the territory. The 2013 lunar series entry appeared the same year Tokelau held its rotating village council leadership transition under the Eke system, one of the few genuinely consensus-based governments still functioning anywhere.
The Snake year issue was struck by the New Zealand Mint on behalf of the territory, targeting the Southeast Asian collector and gift market that drives most Southern Pacific lunar bullion sales.
Tokelau — three Pacific atolls with a combined land area under 12 square kilometers and a population that has never exceeded 1,500 — issues coins through an arrangement with New Zealand, which administers the territory. The 2013 lunar series entry appeared the same year Tokelau held its rotating village council leadership transition under the Eke system, one of the few genuinely consensus-based governments still functioning anywhere.
The Snake year issue was struck by the New Zealand Mint on behalf of the territory, targeting the Southeast Asian collector and gift market that drives most Southern Pacific lunar bullion sales.