Cook Islands has long operated as one of the Pacific's most prolific novelty coin issuers, licensing foreign brands for legal-tender collector pieces that circulate nowhere. The Playboy collaboration produced a series of these gold-plated copper-nickel dollars across 2003–2004, issued under Cook Islands authority but conceived entirely as collectibles for Western markets.
KM#455a denotes the plated variant, distinct from any silver strikes in the series.
Cook Islands has long operated as one of the Pacific's most prolific novelty coin issuers, licensing foreign brands for legal-tender collector pieces that circulate nowhere. The Playboy collaboration produced a series of these gold-plated copper-nickel dollars across 2003–2004, issued under Cook Islands authority but conceived entirely as collectibles for Western markets.
KM#455a denotes the plated variant, distinct from any silver strikes in the series.