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1/2 Dollar - Elizabeth II Alexander von Humboldt
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupying the central field. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left rim, with COOK ISLANDS 2015 continuing along the upper right rim. The denomination HALF DOLLAR is inscribed along the lower rim, and the engraver's initials IRB appear beneath the truncation of the bust. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 2015 IRB HALF DOLLAR |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative coinage under New Zealand's monetary umbrella since 1972, and its output by the 2010s had grown into one of the more prolific novelty programs in the Pacific — dozens of themed releases annually, most destined for collector packaging rather than any till. This piece honors Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian naturalist whose 1799–1804 expedition to the Americas produced five volumes of data that reshaped European understanding of physical geography and plant distribution.
Humboldt died in 1859 at 89, still revising his final work.