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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Florin
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver dollars under a wide variety of themes since the 1970s, but the "Florin" designation here is a deliberate historical callback — the florin being one of the more internationally traveled coin denominations, originating in 13th-century Florence and later adopted across the British Empire. The Cook Islands dollar itself has no independent circulation; the territory uses New Zealand currency for everyday transactions, making these issues purely numismatic products from the outset.
KM#495 is part of a broader Cook Islands series revisiting colonial-era denomination names, produced under license through external minting arrangements rather than any domestic facility.