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1/4 Dollar - Elizabeth II Bal du moulin de la Galette
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Reverse description | A full-color reproduction of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's celebrated Impressionist painting 'Bal du moulin de la Galette' (1876) covers the entire rectangular reverse field, framed by a plain raised border. The scene depicts a lively outdoor dance at the Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, Paris, with elegantly dressed figures dancing, conversing, and socializing beneath dappled light filtering through the trees. The vivid color application captures the characteristic dappled light and animated social atmosphere of Renoir's original canvas, now held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. No additional legends or inscriptions appear on this face. |
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| Mintage | 2016 - Proof - 15,000 |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative quarters under self-governing association with New Zealand since the 1970s, and by the 2010s the program had expanded aggressively into the novelty collector market — large-format copper blanks with silver plating, struck at weights far exceeding any circulating coinage. This piece commemorates Renoir's 1876 painting, part of a broader series pairing Impressionist works with Pacific island denominations that have no meaningful face-value relationship to the coins' actual production costs.
The Renoir original hangs in the Musée d'Orsay. It was acquired by the French state in 1896.