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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Angkor Wat
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the neck truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left field and COOK ISLANDS along the upper right, with the date 2005 split to either side of the portrait and the denomination ONE DOLLAR inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | HISTORY OF ASIA THE KHMERS BUILD ANGKORVAT IN CAMBODSCHA |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative dollars under Elizabeth II's effigy since the 1970s, leveraging its currency-issuing rights as a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand. The Angkor Wat series falls squarely into the collector-targeted souvenir coinage that Pacific island nations began aggressively producing in the 1990s — struck in bulk by overseas mints, never intended for circulation, and distributed almost entirely through philatelic and numismatic retail channels. Silver-plated brass rather than actual silver signals the lower tier of this market.