1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 100th Anniversary of the Titanic

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.