Part of the Royal Canadian Mint-produced "Masters of Art" series for Cook Islands, this issue commemorates Renoir roughly a century after his death in 1919. The Cook Islands licensing arrangement — a sovereign territory that has long served as an issuing vehicle for commemorative programs designed and struck entirely elsewhere — gives legal tender status to coins never intended to circulate on the island group itself.
Part of the Royal Canadian Mint-produced "Masters of Art" series for Cook Islands, this issue commemorates Renoir roughly a century after his death in 1919. The Cook Islands licensing arrangement — a sovereign territory that has long served as an issuing vehicle for commemorative programs designed and struck entirely elsewhere — gives legal tender status to coins never intended to circulate on the island group itself.