Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mad Dan Morgan
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
|---|---|
| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, rendered in high relief against a mirrored proof field, after the third portrait by engraver Raphael David Maklouf, whose initials RD appear below the truncation. The Queen is depicted with a pearl drop earring and a delicate necklace. A dotted inner border frames the circumferential legend, which reads TWO DOLLARS to the left, COOK ISLANDS 2003 at the top, ELIZABETH II to the right, and 2OZ 999 SILVER at the base, all separated by raised dot dividers. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | TWO DOLLARS · COOK ISLANDS 2003 · ELIZABETH II · 2OZ. 999 SILVER · |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Dan Morgan — full name Daniel Morgan — was among the most feared bushrangers of colonial Australia, operating across the New South Wales–Victoria border region in the 1860s. Unlike Ned Kelly, who attracted a degree of popular romanticization during his lifetime, Morgan was widely regarded as genuinely unstable and violent, earning the nickname "Mad Dan" after a series of unprovoked shootings. He was killed in 1865 at Peechelba Station, and his skull was removed post-mortem and sent to Melbourne for phrenological study — a grim postscript that says something about how colonial authorities viewed him.
Cook Islands issued extensively in this period as a licensing revenue exercise, with the Australian bushranger series among numerous commemorative programs produced for international collector markets rather than domestic circulation.