Silver Ounce 2022 Scrooge McDuck, 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 is part of a New Zealand Mint collection of "premium bullion coins" featuring movie characters and themes, and is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Disney's cartoon character Scrooge McDuck.

Scrooge McDuck is known today in particular through the series "DuckTales" - but his role as Donald Duck's billionaire uncle began back in 1947, when he made his first appearance in the Disney comic strip "Christmas on Bear Mountain". Since then, it's hard to imagine Duckburg without the passionate businessman and founder of McDuck Enterprises, who likes to swim in his money bin. Although he can be quite grouchy, his character has changed so that he is now less similar to his namesake Ebenezer Scrooge than he was at the beginning of his career at Disney. Although Scrooge McDuck makes high demands on others and is characterised by his stingy behaviour, he is very loyal and benevolent towards his family.