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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II RAF Mitchell Bomber
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II, after the effigy designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupying the central field. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left periphery, with 1 DOLLAR arching across the upper field and COOK ISLANDS along the right periphery. The date 2014 is positioned in the lower exergue. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The North American B-25 Mitchell served across every theater of World War II, but its most celebrated single operation was the April 1942 Doolittle Raid — sixteen B-25s launched from the carrier USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo, the first air attack on the Japanese home islands. The RAF operated over 900 Mitchells under Lend-Lease, primarily with No. 2 Group, flying low-level precision strikes over occupied Europe from 1943 onward.
Cook Islands has issued commemoratives of this type extensively through licensed distributors rather than domestic monetary policy, and gold-plated copper issues of this format are produced in large quantities for the collector market rather than circulation.