1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Saturn at launch

Part of a broader commemorative program Cook Islands issued throughout the late 2000s targeting the collector novelty market, this piece marks the 1977 Voyager program launches — specifically the Saturn V-era imagery associated with NASA's deep space missions. Cook Islands held no particular relationship to the subject matter; the island authority was, by that point, a prolific licensor of themed coinage produced largely for the European and North American collector trade rather than domestic circulation.