Struck as part of Cook Islands' extensive commemorative program, which has long leveraged the country's currency-issuing rights to produce collector pieces with no connection to local circulation. Diana's 1997 landmine advocacy in Angola — her visit to Huambo just months before her death — gives this issue its nominal historical hook, though the coin itself was produced two decades after the event and twenty years after her death.
Struck as part of Cook Islands' extensive commemorative program, which has long leveraged the country's currency-issuing rights to produce collector pieces with no connection to local circulation. Diana's 1997 landmine advocacy in Angola — her visit to Huambo just months before her death — gives this issue its nominal historical hook, though the coin itself was produced two decades after the event and twenty years after her death.