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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Eye of Horus
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 27 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, rendered in the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The truncation of the neck bears the engraver's initials 'IRB'. The circumferential legend reads 'ELIZABETH II' to the left and 'COOK ISLANDS' to the right, with the denomination '1 DOLLAR' arching across the upper field and the date '2013' positioned in the lower exergue. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative dollars under its own authority since 1972, though New Zealand retains responsibility for its defense and foreign affairs — an arrangement that has never prevented Hamilton from licensing some of the most aggressively marketed collectible coinage in the Pacific. This piece belongs to a wave of gold-plated copper issues produced in the early 2010s largely for the European collector market, manufactured by contract mints rather than any facility on the islands themselves.
Collector demand for Egyptian-themed issues was notably high in this period, driven largely by German and Polish distributors.