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1/4 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 1/4 Dollar |
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| Reverse description | Full-colour reproduction of Sandro Botticelli's Renaissance masterwork 'The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child' applied directly to the rectangular field of the coin. The Virgin Mary is depicted kneeling in three-quarter view, draped in a deep blue mantle over a rose-pink robe, her haloed head inclined in reverent adoration toward the Infant Christ, who reclines in the lower left foreground. A lush garden setting surrounds the figures, populated with flowering rose bushes and foliage rendered in rich polychrome tones against a blue sky. The composition faithfully reproduces the tonal and figural qualities of the original Uffizi panel painting within the coin's rectangular format. |
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| Mintage | 2016 - Proof - 15,000 |
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Cook Islands has issued devotional art series coins since the early 2000s, licensing religious imagery from major European collections for these collector-targeted pieces. This issue reproduces a painting from that tradition, struck in copper with silver plating rather than solid silver — a cost structure that keeps the face value nominal while the retail price is driven entirely by the collector market. The denomination has no practical monetary function.
At 50 grams, the planchet is substantially heavier than any circulating Cook Islands coinage, produced specifically for the cabinet rather than the pocket.