1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Aerial Skiing

Cook Islands leaned heavily on its licensing arrangements with the New Zealand Mint through the late 1990s and early 2000s to produce a flood of themed commemorative dollars, most tied to Olympic and Commonwealth sports cycles. This piece was issued in the lead-up to the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Half-silver at 20 grams was a deliberate cost decision that kept production economical while still qualifying the issue as silver for collector marketing purposes.