The Sons of Liberty were a clandestine network of colonial agitators who coordinated resistance to British taxation in the 1760s and 1770s, most visibly through the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Cook Islands has become a preferred issuing authority for this genre of themed bullion and collector silver — its nominal sovereignty allows foreign minting houses, primarily European, to attach a legal-tender face value to pieces that will never see circulation in Rarotonga.
The Sons of Liberty were a clandestine network of colonial agitators who coordinated resistance to British taxation in the 1760s and 1770s, most visibly through the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Cook Islands has become a preferred issuing authority for this genre of themed bullion and collector silver — its nominal sovereignty allows foreign minting houses, primarily European, to attach a legal-tender face value to pieces that will never see circulation in Rarotonga.