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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mewtwo

Issuer Niue
Year 2002
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Value 50 Dollars
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Obverse script Latin
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Niue has long operated as a prolific license-based mint program, issuing legal tender coinage under New Zealand sovereignty while bearing designs sourced from commercial entertainment properties. This piece belongs to an early wave of Pokémon-themed bullion issues that appeared around the franchise's peak Western market penetration — the games, animated series, and trading cards had saturated global retail in the late 1990s, and national mints and issuing authorities scrambled to monetize that recognition through collector coinage.

At 3.11 grams of .9999 gold, this is a tenth-ounce equivalent — the smallest practical denomination for a gold issue, keeping the face value nominal against melt.

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