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10 Dollars - Charles III Shinkansen
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Weight | 62.2 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Japanese |
| Reverse lettering | 60th Anniversary of Shinkansen Railway 0系 100系 300系 700系 N700系 N700S .9999 |
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The Shinkansen network, launched in 1964 in time for the Tokyo Olympics, fundamentally altered intercity travel economics in Japan and proved that high-speed rail was commercially viable decades before Europe's TGV or Germany's ICE systems reached comparable speeds. Cook Islands has become one of the more prolific licensors of topical collector silver in the Pacific issuer market, with transportation themes consistently among the highest-selling categories for that sovereign program.
The two-troy-ounce format at .9999 fineness places this squarely in the bullion-adjacent collector segment rather than genuine numismatic territory.