Why Tuvalu/Niue?

[Richiesilver]

Have tried to find an answer online but to no avail...

Anyone know what the association with Niue and Tuvalu is to their respective bullion coins? Do the locals get a share of proceeds? Both are small islands in relative poverty by global standards but there seem to be a large amount of coins with their name on them.

Anyone enlighten me as to what it's all about?

[kimchi]

Interesting question!

I could hazard a guess but hopefully someone will come along who knows

[Fivepoundfred]

There is a PCGS article based on Tuvalu coins - https://www.pcgs.com/news/why-are-there-so-many-coins-from-tuvalu

 

[Richiesilver]

38 minutes ago, Fivepoundfred said:

There is a PCGS article based on Tuvalu coins - https://www.pcgs.com/news/why-are-there-so-many-coins-from-tuvalu

 

Thank you! I have many of these and just wanted to make sure it wasn't having some kind of negative impact. 🙂

[HillWalkerDundee]

The other income generator for Tuvalu is Internet names. Their suffix is dot tv.

[sjhdesmond]

21 hours ago, HillWalkerDundee said:

The other income generator for Tuvalu is Internet names. Their suffix is dot tv.

They've done alright out of that. I feel sorry for the Cook Islands who have the suffix .co.ck

[StackemHigh]

3 hours ago, sjhdesmond said:

They've done alright out of that. I feel sorry for the Cook Islands who have the suffix .co.ck

Surely the porn industry must use the .co.ck 

Must be money to be madev there!

[dragafem]

On 06/11/2021 at 01:53, Richiesilver said:

Thank you! I have many of these and just wanted to make sure it wasn't having some kind of negative impact. 🙂

No negative impact but I would not stack many of these coins.They are not as popular however there are a couple of nice proof coins.

[StackemHigh]

Why  Not?

[Oddjob]

On 06/11/2021 at 01:40, Richiesilver said:

Have tried to find an answer online but to no avail...

Anyone know what the association with Niue and Tuvalu is to their respective bullion coins? Do the locals get a share of proceeds? Both are small islands in relative poverty by global standards but there seem to be a large amount of coins with their name on them.

Anyone enlighten me as to what it's all about?

Correct. Those small South Pacific island nations who provide their name to various coins minted by Perth Mint and other mints do get a cut of the sales revenue (well the government does) from each coins sold. Apparently is a quite a good earner for those countries.

[StackemHigh]

Any really good coins you have got this way?

[StackemHigh]

Is this any different from the Dot     .TV    domain names?

Except a chunk of silver in return!!!!!!!

[Oddjob]