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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Endeavor
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Central circular cartouche featuring a full-colour printed depiction of the tall ship HM Bark Endeavour under sail, portrayed in a realistic maritime style against a pale blue sky and sea. The vessel is shown with all masts and rigging set, a small red pennant visible at the foremast. The surrounding raised border carries the arc legend HISTORIC SHIPS OF THE WORLD along the upper periphery and ONE DOLLAR along the lower, separated by small decorative dots, all set within the milled coin border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Endeavour commemorated here is HM Bark Endeavour, the converted coal transport James Cook commanded on his 1768–1771 Pacific voyage — the expedition that produced the first European charts of New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Cook Islands has issued commemorative coinage invoking Cook's voyages repeatedly since the 1970s, and by 2003 the series had become a reliable circulation-adjacent product aimed squarely at the collector market rather than everyday use.
KM#750 is one of several dozen Cook Islands dollar types from this period sharing the same copper-nickel specification.