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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Moomin
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left arc of the field, and COOK ISLANDS along the right arc. The date 2020 appears in the lower field beneath the portrait. |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a full-color depiction of the principal Moomin characters from Tove Jansson's beloved Finnish illustration series, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the franchise. The group portrait includes Moomintroll, Snorkmaiden, Snufkin, Little My, and other iconic characters rendered in vivid applied color against the polished gold field. The arc legend MOOMIN 75TH ANNIVERSARY curves along the upper border. The lower field bears the denomination $100 and the fineness mark .9999, flanked by the copyright mark ©MC™ and the mint identifier I·E·I. |
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The Moomin characters, created by Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson, first appeared in a 1945 novel written partly as an escape from the anxieties of the final months of World War II. Cook Islands has been an aggressive issuer of themed collector gold for decades, leveraging its constitutional relationship with New Zealand to produce legal tender struck by foreign mints for the international numismatic market — pieces that rarely, if ever, circulate on the islands themselves.