1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Perth Mint Shilling

This issue belongs to a collector-driven series replicating the designs of historic Commonwealth shillings in silver, a format the Perth Mint has produced under various Pacific island issuing authorities since the 1990s. Cook Islands, a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand, routinely licenses its minting authority to the Perth Mint for exactly this kind of numismatic product — coins with no meaningful circulation history and a distribution model aimed entirely at the international bullion and collector market.