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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Battle with Three Heroes at Hulao Pass
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Weight | 155.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, depicted with a pearl necklace and wearing the George IV State Diadem, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. A beaded inner border frames the design. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left periphery and COOK ISLANDS along the right, with the date 2004 inscribed at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Vibrant colored depiction of the famous battle scene from the classical Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, illustrating the three heroes Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei simultaneously engaging the warrior Lü Bu on horseback at Hulao Pass. The scene is rendered in traditional Chinese painting style with polychrome enameling, featuring dynamic mounted combatants in elaborate armor amid swirling clouds. The Chinese characters 三英战吕布 are inscribed vertically along the upper left field, with the denomination 10 DOLLARS positioned to the lower right. |
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Part of Cook Islands' long-running series commemorating scenes from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the 14th-century Chinese historical novel by Luo Guanzhong. The Hulao Pass episode — in which Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei together fight the warlord Lü Bu — is among the most celebrated set pieces in the entire text, and its selection here reflects the commercial appetite for that series in East Asian collector markets during the early 2000s.
Cook Islands issued a substantial volume of large-format silver pieces in this period under licensing arrangements that kept production costs low while targeting overseas buyers. Actual distribution through Cook Islands itself was essentially nil.