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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Garfield and Odie
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece belongs to a wave of licensed pop-culture silver issues that Cook Islands produced aggressively through the late 1990s, capitalizing on the island's status as a sovereign mint authority willing to take on novelty contracts that major world mints would not. The Garfield franchise was then owned by Paws, Inc., founded by Jim Davis in 1981 specifically to retain merchandising control — an unusual move for a cartoonist at the time, and one that made licensing arrangements like this straightforward and commercially routine.
Cook Islands itself has no domestic coin-using population of any scale; these were struck purely for the collector export market.