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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Mahatma Gandhi
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Facing three-quarter portrait of Mahatma Gandhi wearing round wire-rimmed spectacles, occupying the right and central portion of the field, with a detailed rendering of a stepped South Indian temple tower, resembling the Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram, depicted to the left in the middle ground. The series title HISTORY OF ASIA arcs along the upper periphery, with MAHATMA GANDHI inscribed in a straight line immediately below in the upper field. |
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| Mintage | 2004 - Proof |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative dollars under licensing arrangements since the 1970s, producing pieces for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation. This Gandhi issue belongs to that tradition — a Pacific microstate with a population under twenty thousand lending its monetary authority to a commemorative series with no geographic connection to its subject.
Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948, and his image has since been subject to tight control under Indian law, making its appearance on foreign-issued collector pieces an occasional point of legal contention.