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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Posthumous, Mt. Everest: First Ascent
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a breathtaking aerial-perspective relief rendering of Mount Everest rendered in extraordinary topographic detail, with selective color application in steel-blue and grey tones highlighting the glaciers, snowfields and rock faces of the mountain's upper massif. A dashed line traces the historic 1953 route of ascent up the south-eastern ridge. A tiny silhouette of a climber is engraved at the mountain's summit. The legend MT. EVEREST appears in bold incuse lettering at the upper field, with 1953 FIRST ASCENT directly below, separated by the summit figure. |
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summited Everest on 29 May 1953, but the news was held back by expedition dispatches and only reached London on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation — 2 June 1953. The timing was treated as a gift to the new reign, and the link between the summit and the coronation became fixed in British Commonwealth memory almost immediately.
Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver in this weight class prolifically since the 1990s, largely through wholesale arrangements with European distributors rather than domestic demand.