50 Cents - King Harald V's Enthronement 35th Anniversary

Niue has functioned as a coin-issuing vehicle for foreign commemoratives since the 1980s, its arrangement with New Zealand allowing it to produce legal tender with no expectation of domestic circulation. Harald V acceded following the death of Olav V in January 1991, his formal enthronement taking place in June of that year at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim — the traditional coronation church of Norwegian monarchs, though Norway had formally abolished the coronation rite in 1908 and reinstated a modified enthronement ceremony in its place.