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1/4 Dollar - Elizabeth II Girl with a Pearl Earring
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 2015 - Proof - 15,000 |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative quarters under licensing arrangements that have little to do with circulation currency — this piece, bearing Vermeer's painting, was produced for the collector market and never intended for exchange. The "Girl with a Pearl Earring," completed around 1665, is held by the Mauritshuis in The Hague and remains one of the most reproduced works in Dutch Golden Age painting.
At 50 grams on a copper core with surface silver plating, the piece is fundamentally a medal in coin clothing.