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Tickle me tail feathers! This coin celebrates the 75th anniversary of the unofficial mascot for precious metals, Scrooge McDuck! We recommend that you add these to your money bin, but refrain from diving. 

Coin Highlights:

• Contains 1 oz of .999 fine Silver. 
• Each coin comes in a box with a certificate of authenticity. 
• Mintage of 1,947 pieces. 
• Obverse: Ian Rank-Broadley likeness of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the monetary denomination. 
• Reverse: Features an officially licensed image of Scrooge McDuck wearing his classic overcoat and top hat while counting a stack of paper bills as he stands in front of a treasure chest and pile of gold coins. 
• Sovereign coin backed by the Niue government.

Scrooge McDuck
In 1947, Scrooge McDuck made his first appearance in the Disney comic "Christmas on Bear Mountain" where he began his role as Donald Duck's uncle. In this first story, he appears much more like his namesake, Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, where his bitterness and dislike for humanity is on full display. However, further development of the character would make him into the more likable and outgoing business tycoon we've come to know and love. In cartoon form, Scrooge would be portrayed as a Scottish-American based in the fictional city of Duckburg. Scrooge is the founder of McDuck Enterprises and calls himself an "adventure capitalist." His treasure-seeking exploits were the subject of many episodes of the cartoon series DuckTales. While known for his exclamatory one-liners and opulent displays of over-the-top wealth, Scrooge's curmudgeonly ways center mostly on demanding high standards of those around him. The Scrooge we know today is fiercely loyal to his family and more benevolent with his wealth than his name implies. The most classic depictions of Scrooge are of him swimming in piles of Gold in his giant money bin in Duckburg.

New Zealand Mint
The New Zealand Mint is a privately owned company in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the only privately owned mint in New Zealand, purchasing refined Gold from international sources to produce coins. They have established their reputation over the past four decades for their high quality design as exhibited by their innovative commemorative Gold and Silver bullion products. The only Precious Metal mint in New Zealand, they use the tag-line “Minters of the South Pacific” and produce collector and bullion coins for a number of Pacific nations, including Fiji, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tuvalu.