10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Girl with a Pearl Earring

The "Girl with a Pearl Earring" — Vermeer's oil-on-canvas from around 1665 — has no confirmed subject. The identity of the sitter has never been established, and the painting itself went unattributed for centuries before serious scholarship connected it to Vermeer in the late 19th century. Cook Islands has built a notable bullion and collector series around Old Masters, leveraging its mint licensing agreements to issue gold fractionals tied to works held in European collections — this piece corresponding to the Mauritshuis in The Hague.