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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Alfred Nobel
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#792 |
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| Reverse description | Central portrait of Alfred Bernhard Nobel facing slightly left, flanked by the allegorical design of the Nobel Prize Medal for Physics and Chemistry, depicting Nature as a goddess resembling Isis emerging from clouds and holding a cornucopia, her veiled face unveiled by the Genius of Science. Two small inlaid glass tubes are incorporated into the design, representing Nobel's chemical and scientific legacy. The denomination 10 DOLLARS appears in the lower field. The reverse legend arcs around the periphery and includes Nobel's birth and death years. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alfred Nobel's will, signed in Paris in 1895, shocked his family and the Swedish establishment equally — he left the bulk of his fortune (roughly 31 million Swedish kronor) to fund annual prizes rather than to his heirs, who contested the document immediately. The first prizes were awarded in 1901, five years after his death in San Remo.
Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver in this weight class prolifically since the 1990s, with hundreds of themed issues bearing the Cook Islands imprimatur while being marketed entirely to overseas collectors rather than circulating domestically.