Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Japanese Bullet Train
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 31.135 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A Shinkansen (Japanese bullet train) depicted in dynamic left-to-right perspective dominates the central field, rendered in gold-plated relief with selective color applied to a scenic background featuring Mount Fuji at left and a traditional Japanese pagoda amid autumnal foliage reflected in water at right. The legend JAPANESE BULLET TRAIN is inscribed in three lines across the upper field. The denomination $1 appears at lower left, the fineness and weight inscription 1oz. 999 SILVER at lower center-right, the Perth Mint's P mintmark at upper left, and the designer's initials RV at lower right. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Cook Islands has operated one of the more prolific commemorative programs in the Pacific, licensing its issuing authority to mint houses — primarily in Germany and Austria — producing themed collector pieces with no connection to Cook Islands itself. This bullet train dollar is a product of that arrangement. The Shinkansen series it depicts began revenue service in October 1964, timed deliberately to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics, as the Japanese government wanted the world to witness the infrastructure rebuild from the postwar decades.
The .999 gold plating over .999 silver construction is characteristic of the B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt output from this period.