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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Red Deer
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed, naturalistically rendered scene depicting two red deer (Cervus elaphus) set within a forest environment. A standing stag, rendered in full applied color, occupies the central field, while a second deer lies recumbent in the foreground without color application. The surrounding woodland foliage is rendered with fine engraving detail. The inscriptions 'RED DEER' and 'WORLD OF HUNTING' appear in Fraktur blackletter script, with the date '2014' also present on the reverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | RED DEER WORLD OF HUNTING 2014 |
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Cook Islands has issued an enormous volume of themed wildlife silver in the 2010s, much of it produced by the Coin Invest Trust operation in Liechtenstein and distributed through the secondary market rather than through any domestic monetary infrastructure. These pieces circulate almost exclusively among thematic collectors; none reach the Cook Islands themselves in any meaningful sense.
The red deer (*Cervus elaphus*) holds particular cultural weight across Eurasia — reintroduced in several European countries after near-extirpation during 19th-century land consolidation — but that context has no bearing on this issue's origin.