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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Lourdes
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS IRB 10 DOLLARS |
| Reverse description | The reverse depicts an engraved skyline view of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, featuring the twin spires and Gothic facade of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception rendered in fine relief against a radiating sunburst background. At centre, a large circular polychrome enamel inset reproduces the iconic stained-glass rose window of the basilica, portraying the Virgin Mary in apparition above Saint Bernadette and kneeling pilgrims in vivid colour detail. The legend WINDOWS OF HEAVEN arcs along the upper rim, while LOURDES appears in bold raised lettering along the lower field, with the date 2013 inscribed in the exergue. |
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Cook Islands has issued devotional commemoratives for decades under licensing arrangements that have little to do with the islands themselves — these are essentially European collector products struck to Pacific Island authority. This piece belongs to a series honoring Marian pilgrimage sites, of which Lourdes is the most commercially viable: roughly six million visitors travel to the Hautes-Pyrénées shrine annually, making it the most-visited site in France.
Bernadette Soubirous reported eighteen apparitions there between February and July 1858. The Vatican formally recognized the apparitions the same year the first permanent stone basilica was consecrated — 1862.