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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Marina Tsvetaeva
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1625 |
| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, centered within a beaded inner circle. The Queen is depicted wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, drop earrings, and a pearl necklace. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH II · TWO DOLLARS · COOK ISLANDS, with the date 2006 positioned at the base, all set within a dotted border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Tsvetaeva spent much of her adult life in poverty-stricken exile — Prague, Berlin, Paris — before returning to the Soviet Union in 1939, where her husband was executed and her daughter sent to the Gulag. She hanged herself in Yelabuga in 1941. Cook Islands issued several dozen similar silver rounds in this period under licensing arrangements that had little to do with the islands themselves, functioning essentially as a bullion collectible vehicle for foreign distributors targeting the commemorative coin market.