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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Red Fox
| Issuer | Cook Islands Government |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a richly detailed autumnal forest landscape rendered in selective color application, depicting two red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) amid a woodland setting of coniferous and deciduous trees. On the left, a seated fox is shown in uncolored high-relief silver, while a second fox in naturalistic orange and black coloring is depicted in a stalking posture at center-right. The legend RED FOX in bold blackletter script arcs across the upper field, with WORLD OF HUNTING and a decorative oak leaf motif inscribed beneath at center. The date 2014 appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Red Fox series from Cook Islands falls squarely within the wildlife bullion and collector-issue boom of the early 2010s, when numerous Pacific island jurisdictions — Niue, Palau, Tuvalu among them — monetized their sovereignty by licensing designs to European and Asian mints for global collector distribution. Cook Islands has no native fox population; the coin's subject has nothing to do with the issuing territory.
KM#2160 was produced by the Bison Mint in Poland, one of several Eastern European private mints that took on significant Cook Islands contract work during this period.