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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Great Tea Race
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II 2 DOLLARS COOK ISLANDS 2016 IRB |
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The Great Tea Race of 1866 pitted clipper ships against one another in a near-simultaneous departure from Fuzhou, China, loaded with the season's first flush tea — the cargo that commanded premium prices if landed first in London. The Taeping beat the Ariel by a mere 28 minutes after 99 days at sea covering roughly 16,000 miles, a margin so absurd that the captains agreed to split the prize money.
Cook Islands has issued commemoratives under this general "racing" theme across several years; this is one of the smaller-format silver pieces in that run, struck by a private mint on commission rather than through any domestic minting infrastructure.