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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Yosemite National Park
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Weight | 28 g |
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| Reverse lettering | YOSEMITE National Park Peregrine Falcon 10 DOLLARS |
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| Mintage | 1997 - Proof |
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Cook Islands ran an aggressive commemorative silver program throughout the 1990s, licensing American national park imagery under agreements that had more to do with generating seigniorage revenue than any geographic or political connection to the United States. Yosemite was established as the first federally protected wilderness area by an act of Congress in 1890, though its origins trace to Lincoln's 1864 land grant to California — a wartime gesture that set the legal precedent for the entire national park system.