Silver Ounce 2023 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 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 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 famous movie characters.

This coloured rectangular coin is part of a New Zealand Mint range depicting famous movie posters, and features the 1984 film classic Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which is the second part of the film series.

In the adventure film, "Indie" finds himself in an Indian village after a plane crash. There, the inhabitants complain to him and his companions, the hysterical singer Willie and the Asian boy Shorty, that children are disappearing, people are dying and a mystical stone has vanished. Indiana Jones decides to solve the mysterious circumstances. His dangerous mission puts him on the trail of a religious cult that is not only responsible for the disappearance of the sacred Shankara stone, but also has children kidnapped to work as slaves in a mine and search for more stones. The sinister temple people are obsessed with their cult and do not even stop at sacrificing people. With the help of his companions, Indiana Jones manages to free the children and return the recovered Shankara stone to its rightful owners.