1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Bounty

The Bounty dollar series has been a Cook Islands staple since the 1970s, initially issued as genuine circulation coinage before evolving into collector-targeted silver bullion. By 2015 the series had long since abandoned any pretense of circulating — Cook Islands' actual monetary economy runs on New Zealand dollars — but the constitutional relationship with New Zealand grants the islands full authority to issue legal tender, which has been exploited aggressively by numismatic marketing firms for decades.

KM# 1533 in .9999 fineness places this among the later, purer strikes in the run, as earlier issues were produced in .925.