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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Ghost bat
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 1998 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) is Australia's only carnivorous bat species and one of the continent's most imperiled mammals — by 1998, its range had contracted to a handful of isolated colonies across the north. Cook Islands issued a series of wildlife-themed crowns throughout the 1990s under licensing arrangements that had little to do with the animals' native jurisdictions; this piece is effectively an Australian conservation coin issued by a Pacific territory for the international collector market.