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| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design features the Eternal Moon Article, a winged heart-shaped compact iconic to the Sailor Moon Eternal animated series, rendered in high relief with a crosshatch-patterned surface and a set brilliant-cut diamond inlaid at its crown. Decorative scrollwork and five-pointed stars surround the central motif in the field. The curved legend PRETTY GUARDIAN SAILOR MOON ETERNAL appears along the upper portion of the rim. The copyright notice NT/PSEP is inscribed at lower left, with the denomination $10 at lower center and the fineness .9999 GOLD at lower right. |
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Cook Islands has operated as a prolific licensing mint for the New Zealand-administered territory since the 1970s, issuing legal tender under agreements that allow foreign bullion and novelty coin programs to carry Cook Islands authority while never circulating there. This piece is part of a broader Sailor Moon series produced under license from Toei Animation, whose intellectual property rights over the franchise have been actively commercialized across collectibles markets since the manga's debut in 1991.
The diamond inclusion places it in a category of composite issues that occupy an awkward space in numismatic classification — technically legal tender, functionally closer to jewelry.