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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Saturn
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Technique | Colored, Milled |
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| Reverse description | A circular full-color photographic insert occupies the central field, depicting the Saturn V rocket ascending against a vivid blue sky, its lower stage engulfed in a fiery orange exhaust plume, commemorating the Apollo 11 mission of 1969. The inner border surrounding the color insert is black with eight evenly spaced five-pointed stars. The arc legend ONE SMALL STEP appears in raised gold lettering along the upper border, while the commemorative dates 1969 and 2009 flank the lower border, separated by stars, marking the 40th anniversary of the first crewed Moon landing. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Cook Islands has issued commemorative and novelty coinage under New Zealand's currency agreement since the early 1970s, with the program expanding dramatically in the 2000s into themed series targeting collectors rather than circulation. This Saturn piece belongs to a planetary series produced during that period of aggressive expansion, when the islands' coin program was generating more revenue from foreign collectors than from anything approaching domestic monetary use.