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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Yellow Crowned Parakeet
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Crowned right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as engraved by Robert Dark Maklouf, wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl drop earring with a delicate necklace at the truncation. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field, framed by a continuous inner beaded border. The legend ELIZABETH II · TWO DOLLARS · COOK ISLANDS arcs around the periphery, with the date 2005 positioned at the base, and the engraver's initials RDM appear discreetly at the truncation. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Part of a Cook Islands wildlife series that leaned heavily on the country's association with Pacific biodiversity, this issue was produced for the collector market rather than circulation — Cook Islands had long used such programs as a revenue mechanism, licensing designs through foreign minting agencies. The Yellow Crowned Parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps) is native to New Zealand's forests, not the Cook Islands themselves, a geographic looseness that was entirely routine for this type of sovereign-licensed commemorative.