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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Operation Market Garden
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing a pearl earring, after the fourth definitive portrait by engraver Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left periphery and COOK ISLANDS along the right, with the denomination 1 DOLLAR arching across the upper field. The date 2015 is placed in the lower field beneath the portrait, all set against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Operation Market Garden, launched in September 1944, was Montgomery's ambitious attempt to seize Rhine crossings through the Netherlands using the largest Allied airborne assault of the war. It failed primarily at Arnhem, where the British 1st Airborne Division held out for nine days against SS Panzer units before the surviving troops were evacuated — roughly 2,400 of the nearly 10,000 who had landed.
Cook Islands has issued commemorative dollars under royal authority since the 1970s, frequently licensing military and historical themes to private minting houses for the collector market rather than circulation.