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| Issuer | Cook Islands Government |
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| Year | 2019-2022 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Cook Islands has operated one of the more aggressive bullion and collector coin programs in the Pacific since the 1970s, leveraging its status as a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand to issue legal tender coinage struck almost entirely for foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation. The "Silver Star" series falls squarely into that category — a privately marketed bullion product using Cook Islands authority as the legal fiction for face value.
At .9999 fineness, this issue meets the same purity threshold as the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf.