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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II M3 Lee
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Gold-plated effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, identified by the initials IRB below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left rim, while 1 DOLLAR and COOK ISLANDS are inscribed along the upper and right portions of the rim respectively. The date 2016 appears in the lower field, all set against a dark proof field. |
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| Reverse description | A full-color depiction of the American-built M3 Lee-Grant medium tank rendered in desert camouflage livery, shown in three-quarter left-forward perspective with its distinctive sponson-mounted 75mm gun and turret-mounted 37mm gun clearly visible. The tank's track assembly, road wheels, and hull detail are faithfully reproduced in color against a dark gold-plated field incorporating a stylized track-tread pattern to the left. A border of raised dots frames the inner field. The inscription M3 LEE-GRANT is lettered vertically along the left side of the design. |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative dollars under its name since the 1970s, functioning as a de facto licensing arrangement — the designs are conceived, marketed, and sold entirely outside the islands, with Cook Islands providing legal tender status in exchange. The "M3 Lee" in this designation refers to the American medium tank used extensively by Allied forces from 1941, including at the Battle of Gazala and during the North African campaign, where British crews famously nicknamed it the "Lee" to distinguish it from the slightly modified "Grant" variant.
These gold-plated copper issues are collector items with no circulation history whatsoever.