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 commemorative, bullion and collector coins under the authority of Niue. These coins are 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). Many of these feature characters and themes from popular culture.
The second silver coin from the Czech Mint's four-part miniseries inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book features Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Black Panther.
A boy named Mowgli grows up among wolves, but his path to becoming a member of the pack was not an easy one. At first the wolves considered throwing the orphaned human cub to a tiger, but thanks to Baloo and Bagheera they eventually accepted him into their midst.
Baloo is an old and perpetually sleepy brown bear who feeds on honey and roots. He teaches the little wolf cubs the harsh but fair laws that every jungle dweller must know and respect. Mowgli may not be an obedient student, but the kind and generous teacher gets to like him...
Bagheera is the black panther who saves Mowgli's life by killing a bull. The cunning and fierce hunter gets on well with the boy he protects devotedly, because he was born into captivity and so knows not only the jungle but also the human world. | 
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