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15 Dollars - Elizabeth II Year of the Snake
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 15 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | YEAR OF THE SNAKE 2.5g 9999 Gold 如意 P 15 DOLLARS |
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Cook Islands issued a long-running series of small-format gold pieces tied to the Chinese lunar calendar, with this Snake year falling in 2001. The series was produced primarily for the Asian collector market, where demand for lunar-themed bullion in fractional gold weights was substantial enough to sustain output from multiple Pacific island mints throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
KM# 1195 is one of the more modestly distributed entries in the series — mintages for these Cook Islands lunar issues were rarely published transparently by the issuing authority.