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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Samurai
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A fully armoured Japanese samurai warrior is depicted in dynamic stance at centre, clad in traditional lamellar armour and horned helmet, wielding a long yari spear diagonally across the field. Two circular orbs, suggestive of celestial bodies or mon emblems, flank the figure on the left and right. The series title HISTORY OF ASIA arcs prominently along the upper legend, while the inscriptions SUMARAI and JAPAN appear in two lines along the lower field. |
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Part of a broadly distributed Pacific island commemorative program that leveraged Cook Islands' status as a New Zealand realm territory to issue legal tender coins marketed almost entirely to foreign collectors. The samurai subject has no historical connection to Cook Islands — the island group's coinage authority has long licensed its minting rights to third-party distributors, a common arrangement among small Pacific jurisdictions seeking revenue without operating their own mint infrastructure.