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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Niko and Friends
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#743 |
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| Reverse description | Colorized depiction of the animated characters from the Finnish-German animated film Niko & The Way to the Stars: the young reindeer Niko dominates the foreground with a large, expressive face, rendered in naturalistic brown tones, while a squirrel and a white fawn are perched atop his antlers in the middle ground. A frost-covered winter forest landscape is rendered in silver relief in the background. The film's title logo NIKO & THE WAY TO THE STARS appears in stylized lettering in the upper left of the field. The colored central design contrasts sharply with the matte silver relief border and serrated rim of the heptagonal flan. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative dollars under licensing arrangements with various intellectual property holders since the 1990s, and the "Niko and Friends" series falls squarely within that commercial program — coins produced primarily for the collector and gift market rather than any monetary function. The KM#743 attribution places it among hundreds of similar Cook Islands issues catalogued in this period, most struck by external mints under contract.