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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing a pearl drop earring, rendered in high relief after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field, with COOK ISLANDS curving along the right. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation, and the date 2009 is inscribed at the bottom of the field. |
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| Edge | Smooth, with fineness and individual serial number |
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The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin was deliberately left in its bombed-out state after World War II — a conscious civic decision made in the 1950s when demolition was seriously proposed and narrowly rejected. The ruined spire has stood as a deliberate scar since 1943, when an RAF raid gutted the interior. A modernist addition by Egon Eiermann was completed in 1963 alongside it, the old ruin and new tower coexisting in permanent architectural argument.
Cook Islands issued a substantial run of silver commemoratives through this period under licensing arrangements that had little connection to the subjects honored. KM#693 falls squarely within that program.