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| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II 1 DOLLAR COOK ISLANDS 2007 |
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| Reverse lettering | DIANA - PRINCESS OF WALES 1961 - 1997 |
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Cook Islands has operated one of the more prolific commemorative programs in the Pacific, frequently licensing portrait rights and historical imagery for coins with no circulation intent whatsoever. This piece was issued roughly a decade after Diana's 1997 death, during a sustained wave of memorial issues that flooded the collector market from multiple low-sovereignty issuers simultaneously.
Gold-plated copper-nickel at this weight and diameter is the workhorse format of the souvenir coin trade — produced in the tens of thousands, sold at multiples of melt value, and almost never redeemed as legal tender in Cook Islands itself.