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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Legacy Eagle
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a dramatic close-up portrait of a bald eagle's head facing right in high sculptural relief, dominating the upper and central field. Two smaller eagles in full flight are depicted below and behind the primary head, conveying a sense of generational legacy and motion. A radiating sunburst motif occupies the right field beside the Roman numeral date MMXXI. The curved legend LEGACY EAGLE arches across the upper rim, while the three mottoes UNITY, STRENGTH, and PROSPERITY are inscribed along the lower arc of the field. |
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The "Legacy Eagle" belongs to a crowded category of Cook Islands bullion-adjacent issues that use the territory's Commonwealth minting rights as a vehicle for internationally marketed silver rounds dressed as legal tender. Cook Islands has no indigenous eagle tradition; the bird and the branding exist entirely for export collector markets, primarily North American.
KM# 1999 was assigned during a period when the Krause catalog was struggling to keep pace with Cook Islands' prolific licensing output — dozens of new types per year, many struck by the New Zealand Mint or foreign private facilities under contract.