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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Two Tahitian Women

Issuer Cook Islands
Year 2021
Type Non-circulating coin
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Reverse description Full-color reproduction of Paul Gauguin's painting 'Two Tahitian Women' (1899), depicting two bare-shouldered Polynesian women in the foreground: the figure on the left holds a tray bearing red flowers, while the figure on the right cradles a single pink blossom against a blue wrap. The image is faithfully rendered in vivid polychrome color print applied to the coin's field. The legend BEAUTY AU NATUREL COLLECTION is inscribed vertically along the left rim, and the fineness mark .999 appears in the lower field.
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Reverse lettering Beauty Au Naturel Collection .999
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Part of a broader wave of legal-tender collector issues produced for Cook Islands by the Austrian Mint and various European minting houses, this piece belongs to a category of coins where the issuing territory has virtually no hand in production or distribution. Cook Islands has long been a favored jurisdiction for this model — its status as a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand provides legitimate sovereign authority to issue currency while imposing no practical constraints on the minting contractors who design and sell the pieces outright to the collector market.

The Tahitian subject matter has no particular connection to Cook Islands geography or history.

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