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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Memorial of the Battle of the Peoples

Issuer Cook Islands
Year 2010
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Currency Dollar (1972-date)
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Obverse script Latin
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Cook Islands issued a wave of novelty mechanical coins in the late 2000s and early 2010s, largely through the Münze Österreich and B.H. Mayer licensing pipeline, targeting the collector gift market rather than any serious numismatic audience. This piece commemorates the Battle of the Nations — Leipzig, October 1813 — the largest engagement in European history before the First World War, in which over 600,000 troops fought across four days and Napoleon suffered the defeat that effectively ended French dominance in Central Europe.

The pop-up mechanism is the point of sale here, not the history.

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