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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Diana Princess of Wales
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central field bears a full-colour photographic portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, depicted in a three-quarter forward-facing pose, wearing a dark coat and a navy blue veiled hat with netting framing her face. A fine beaded inner border encircles the portrait. The legend DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin letters, while the birth and death dates 1961 - 1997 appear in the lower field, flanked by decorative scroll motifs. |
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| Mintage | 2009 |
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Commemorative issues tied to Diana's memory flooded the market in the years following her 1997 death, with Cook Islands among the most prolific producers of such material. The islands' government has long licensed its sovereign mint authority to third-party distributors, meaning pieces like this one were almost certainly conceived, marketed, and sold entirely outside the Pacific — Cook Islands' name providing little more than legal tender status for a product aimed squarely at the collector gift market.
Gold-plated copper-nickel in this format has no secondary bullion value and was never intended for circulation.