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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mikado Pheasant
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Engraver(s) | Raphael David Maklouf |
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| Reverse description | A full-color applied illustration depicting a pair of Mikado Pheasants (Syrmaticus mikado) amid lush green foliage set against a deeply polished black field. The male, rendered prominently in iridescent blue-black and chestnut plumage with characteristic red wattles, is positioned to the left, while the smaller reddish-brown female stands to the right. The Chinese characters 帝雉 appear centrally below the upper arc legend ASIAN WILDLIFE SERIES, and the species name MIKADO PHEASANT is inscribed along the lower arc. The denomination and fineness $2 1OZ .999 SILVER appear vertically along the left field. |
| Reverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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Cook Islands leaned heavily into wildlife thematics through the late 1990s and early 2000s, contracting a significant portion of these issues through the New Zealand Mint as part of a broader Pacific island coin program aimed squarely at the collector market. The Mikado Pheasant — endemic to Taiwan and protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species — had no particular connection to Cook Islands, which had none of the species and no cultural history with it.
KM#551 sits in a long run of similar wildlife issues from this issuer, most struck in limited quantities for direct sale, never intended for circulation.