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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Church of Our Lady in Dresden
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a three-dimensional silver-plated pop-up insert depicting the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden, rendered in fine architectural detail with its distinctive sandstone dome and flanking turrets rising above the surrounding Baroque cityscape engraved in the gold-plated field. To the upper left, a globe-and-rings logo appears above the inscription WORLD MONUMENTS in two lines. The curved legend GERMANY - FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN arcs along the upper rim, and the denomination 1 DOLLAR is inscribed along the lower field. |
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| Mintage | 2009 - Prooflike - 7,500 |
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Part of Cook Islands' long-running series of architectural pop-up coins, this piece commemorates the Frauenkirche in Dresden — a Lutheran church completed in 1743, reduced to rubble by Allied firebombing in February 1945, and left as a deliberate ruin by East German authorities for decades as an anti-war monument. Reunification changed the political calculus entirely. Reconstruction began in 1994 using a laser-mapped reconstruction plan and thousands of salvaged original stones, each catalogued by position, completing in 2005.
The pop-up mechanism is a Swiss-patented feature used across this series, with the insert engineered to lock upright under spring tension from the coin's reverse recess.