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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 100th Anniversary of the Titanic
| Issuer | Treasury of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left field, and COOK ISLANDS along the upper right. The denomination 1 DOLLAR appears in the lower field. The engraver's initials IRB are incused below the truncation of the neck. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed depiction of the RMS Titanic steaming at sea, shown in three-quarter bow view with her four funnels emitting smoke, rigging lines visible against the field, and bow wave rendered at the waterline. To the left, a partially visible iceberg rises from the lower field, alluding to the vessel's fate. The name TITANIC is boldly inscribed in the lower field, with the commemorative dates 1912 - 2012 below, marking the centenary of the sinking. |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative gold miniatures under treasury authority since the 1990s, and this piece belongs to a wave of centenary Titanic issues that flooded the numismatic market in 2012 from multiple small-nation issuers simultaneously. The wreck was located by Robert Ballard in 1985; by the centenary, licensing and commemoration rights had become genuinely contested commercial territory.