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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Canopic jars
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a diamond diadem and drop earring, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field, with 1 DOLLAR inscribed across the upper field and COOK ISLANDS descending along the right. The date 2013 appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The canopic jar series was part of a broader wave of novelty-format collector issues that Cook Islands licensed to European minting houses in the early 2010s — a revenue arrangement common among small Pacific sovereignties with no meaningful domestic coin circulation. These pieces were never intended for any transactional purpose and were distributed almost entirely through European and North American dealer networks.
Gold-plated copper of this weight dates quickly at contact points, and known examples already show copper bleed at the highest relief edges.