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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Winston Churchill
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1974 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1874 MAN OF THE CENTURY · 1974 CHURCHILL 100 DOLLARS |
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Issued the year before the Cook Islands gained self-governing status under New Zealand's umbrella, this piece belongs to a wave of commemorative gold struck by Pacific island territories in the early 1970s — many of which used Churchill's image as a reliable commercial draw for the collector market rather than from any particular political connection. Cook Islands had no meaningful historical tie to Churchill.
The Franklin Mint produced a significant portion of these Pacific commemorative issues during this period under contract arrangements. Fr#1 placing this as the first listed gold issue in Friedberg's catalog for the territory reflects how new the coinage program was.