Silver Ounce 2021 Ms. Pac-Man, Coin from Niue - detailed information

Niue, a sovereign state in free association with New Zealand, uses two official legal tender currencies. The New Zealand Dollar is the circulation currency for daily transactions, while the government also authorises legal tender coins in the Niue Dollar currency for collector's purposes.

A number of mints issue a large variety of coins under the authority of Niue. Most of these are commemorative and collector issues dedicated to historical or general popular culture themes not related to Niue itself. Many of them are in standard bullion sizes - typically, one ounce of silver (abbreviated as 1 oz Ag, where "Ag" comes from the Latin word for silver, Argentum). Those issued at prices much higher than their bullion value are separately listed in the Non-Circulating Legal Tender (NCLT) silver ounce section of the site.

Unlike them, this coin is targeted at bullion investors and was initially released at a price close to the value of its precious metal content.

This coin was issued to mark the 40th anniversary of the video game Ms. Pac-Man.

Ms.PAC-MAN is an arcade video game originally presented to the public in 1981 by Midway, the American distributor of PAC-MAN, as a sequel to that series. Ms.PAC-MAN was then released on January 13th, 1982 to critical acclaim. The game system is the same as PAC-MAN, but comes with additional features, such as an alternating maze designs which includes two warp tunnels instead of one. The classic arcade game went on to sell 125,000 cabinets by 1988. It was also ported to several home video game consoles and won multiple awards.