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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Santa Fe
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a coloured scene of the famous Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway diesel locomotive hauling a passenger train across an arid southwestern American landscape, rendered against a vivid orange and red sunset sky with rolling desert hills. A tall saguaro cactus stands in the right foreground, emphasising the desert setting. The coloured panoramic scene is framed within a silver relief border integrated into the coin's field. The denomination $1 and the name SANTA FE appear in the lower portion of the field in bold lettering, with the inscription 1oz. 999 SILVER struck below the train scene. The Perth Mint privy mark P appears at the lower left. |
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The Santa Fe was a Spanish galleon lost in 1681 off the coast of Colombia, and its recovery — along with thousands of silver cobs and artifacts — became one of the more commercially exploited shipwreck finds of the late twentieth century. Cook Islands issued a long-running series of dollar coins tied to such wrecks, leveraging the islands' liberal minting agreements with foreign private mints to produce collectibles with nominal legal tender status but no expectation of circulation.
KM# 1374 sits in a crowded field of similar issues from this series, most struck by the New Zealand Mint or affiliated contractors.