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100 Dollars - Charles III Milan & Prague
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Meticulously engraved architectural composition depicting the central section of the main façade of Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano), rendered in exceptional high relief with antiqued finish. Vertical Gothic pinnacles and pilasters divide the field, adorned with numerous statues of saints and decorative tracery throughout. The central portal features a Baroque semicircular pediment above the doorway opening, inscribed MARIAE NASCENTI on the entablature above, with flanking sculptural figures on a balcony loggia. The main portal doorway is inlaid with genuine green Tiffany art glass. The series name PORTALS and the legend Tiffany Art 2026 appear in the lower left field, with the inscription MILAN in the lower exergue. |
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The pairing of Milan and Prague in a single issue is historically coherent in a way that often goes unremarked: both cities served as seats of Habsburg imperial power, Milan from 1535 and Prague most prominently under Rudolf II, whose court there from 1583 to 1612 became the strangest and most intellectually dense in Europe. Rudolf essentially abandoned Vienna, dragging the imperial apparatus northward into Bohemia and filling Prague Castle with alchemists, astronomers, and an obsessive art collection that Napoleon's troops would later loot in quantity.
The Tiffany glass inlay technique used in this series — developed for the New Zealand Mint — requires the glass to be kiln-fused directly into a recess in the coin blank, a process that rejects a significant proportion of planchets at inspection.