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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | Central composition depicting a Native American chief's head wearing a full feathered war bonnet, set against a Southwestern desert landscape featuring rocky buttes and a saguaro cactus. In the lower half, a stylised mine shaft entrance framed by timber supports is shown in the foreground, with a mine lantern and stars visible within. The circular legend LOST DUTCHMAN MINE arcs along the upper periphery, interrupted at upper right by the denomination 10 DOLLARS running vertically along the right border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Lost Dutchman's Mine is one of the most persistent treasure legends in American folklore, tied to the Superstition Mountains of Arizona and to a 19th-century German immigrant named Jacob Waltz — the "Dutchman" being a corruption of "Deutsch." Despite over a century of searches, no verifiable lode has ever been confirmed, and several treasure hunters have died in the attempt.
Cook Islands became a prolific issuer of small-denomination gold coins in the mid-2000s, targeting the collector market with themed series of this approximate fractional weight.