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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 1958 Football World Cup Runner-Up
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The central field depicts a relief portrait of the Swedish national football team posed in two rows, with five players standing in the back row and six seated in the front row, commemorating their runner-up finish at the 1958 FIFA World Cup held in Sweden. Below the team portrait, a color-applied rendition of the Swedish national flag — displaying a gold Nordic cross on a dark blue field — occupies the lower portion of the inner circle. The surrounding border legend reads RUNNER-UP FOOTBALL WORLD CUP 1958 SWEDEN along the upper arc, and ONE DOLLAR along the lower arc, all in raised Latin lettering. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands issued a substantial run of commemorative silver dollars through the late 1990s and early 2000s under licensing arrangements that had little to do with local monetary need — these pieces were produced almost entirely for the collector export market. This particular issue marks Sweden's runner-up finish at the 1958 FIFA World Cup, held on Swedish soil, where the host nation reached the final before losing 5–2 to a Brazilian side that included a seventeen-year-old Pelé playing in his first World Cup tournament.