Cook Islands issued a sprawling series of gold-plated base-metal dollars in the 2000s under licensing arrangements that had little to do with the island nation itself — the coins were designed, marketed, and distributed almost entirely by European trading houses targeting collector markets. Richard I's inclusion here reflects commercial demand rather than any constitutional or historical tie between the Plantagenet crown and Rarotonga.
Cook Islands issued a sprawling series of gold-plated base-metal dollars in the 2000s under licensing arrangements that had little to do with the island nation itself — the coins were designed, marketed, and distributed almost entirely by European trading houses targeting collector markets. Richard I's inclusion here reflects commercial demand rather than any constitutional or historical tie between the Plantagenet crown and Rarotonga.