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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Posthumous, The Stanley

Issuer Cook Islands
Year 2023
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Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
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Reverse lettering 2023 THE STANLEY MOST HAUNTED PLACES
Edge Reeded
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The Stanley is the capital and principal port of the Falkland Islands, and its name carries the full weight of the 1982 conflict — the town changed hands twice during the war, with Argentine forces occupying it from April until British forces retook it in June. Cook Islands has built a substantial business issuing commemorative silver for third-party subjects, operating under licensing arrangements that have no geographic or political connection to the depicted subject.

Elizabeth II died in September 2022, making this a posthumous issue — struck under her effigy by a territory she never visited, commemorating a settlement she never governed.

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