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| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the left rim and 'NIUE' appears at the top, with '50 DOLLARS' along the right rim in a vertical orientation. The engraver's initials 'IRB' appear below the truncation of the bust. The date '2022' is inscribed in the lower field. The design is rendered in high relief on a proof-quality polished field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II NIUE 50 DOLLARS IRB 2022 |
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Niue has operated as a coin-issuing jurisdiction for international bullion and collector markets since the 1980s, leveraging its status as a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand to issue legal tender without the infrastructure of a conventional mint program. The actual striking is contracted out — in recent years predominantly to the Polish Mint in Warsaw, which has become one of the dominant producers of commemorative and bullion issues for small Pacific island jurisdictions.
KM#5738 falls within a broad "Europe" themed series, a marketing framework rather than a numismatic one.