Silver Ounce 2024 Disney Princess - Belle, 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 coin is part of a New Zealand Mint series called Disney Princess featuring Disney animated film characters, and is dedicated to Belle from the movie "Beauty and the Beast".

Beauty and the Beast is a Disney classic from 1991 and tells the story of a brave, intelligent and compassionate young woman who wants to free her father from the clutches of the “Beast”. She achieves this by deciding to go into captivity so that her father can remain free. At the end of the movie, Belle falls in love with the Beast, turning him back into a prince as she was able to break the Beast's curse. The fairytale story is intended to illustrate that it is not only external beauty that matters, but also inner values, the willingness to sacrifice and the ability to look behind the outer façade.