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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Javelin throw
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left field and NIUE ISLAND along the upper right, separated by the portrait. The denomination 50 CENTS is inscribed along the lower periphery. The design is framed by a fine beaded border encircling the entire obverse field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Niue's Olympic-themed commemorative program in the early 2000s was a licensing arrangement that produced dozens of large-format silver-plated pieces timed to the Athens 2004 cycle. These were sold primarily through third-party distributors rather than through any meaningful domestic circulation — Niue's resident population at the time sat below 2,000 people, making the notion of a 42-gram 50-cent piece changing hands at a market stall purely theoretical.
The KM# 107 assignment places this squarely within a dense sequence of near-identical Niuean sports issues from the same period, differentiated only by the depicted event.