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| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of the iconic Hello Kitty character seated and facing forward, adorned with a floral wreath of roses around her head and body, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. Scattered rose blossoms occupy the surrounding field. The curved legend HELLO KITTY 45TH ANNIVERSARY arcs along the upper rim, with the fineness .9999 to the right. The denomination $10 appears in the lower left field, accompanied by the Sanrio copyright inscription and date to the lower right. |
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Cook Islands has operated as a prolific licensing mint since the 1970s, issuing legal tender coinage under New Zealand's constitutional umbrella while bearing no obligation to produce coins that ever circulate domestically. This piece exists entirely within the collector novelty market — Sanrio licensed Hello Kitty for numismatic products across multiple mints and issuers during the 2010s, generating dozens of fractional gold issues aimed at crossover collectors bridging coin and character merchandise markets.
The KM#2747 assignment places it within a catalog sequence that runs into the thousands for Cook Islands alone.