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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Young George
| Issuer | Cook Islands Government |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central circular color-printed vignette depicting a scene of young George Washington as a boy standing outdoors in a pastoral landscape, accompanied by an adult figure, both rendered in full color with trees, greenery, and grazing sheep in the background. Overlapping the lower right of the vignette is a color-applied five-pointed star bearing the design of the American flag in red, white, and blue. A blue banner across the lower portion of the central image bears the legend YOUNG GEORGE in white lettering. The surrounding milled border carries the inscriptions GEORGE WASHINGTON along the upper arc and AN AMERICAN LIFE along the lower arc, separated by small five-pointed stars on each side. |
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The "Young George" designation refers to the so-called "Godless florin" portrait variant — specifically the first definitive coinage portrait of George VI issued without the traditional "Fid. Def." abbreviation, an omission that caused considerable controversy in Britain when it appeared on circulating currency in 1937. Cook Islands has drawn on this design lineage for a bullion and collector series pairing Elizabeth II's own early effigy with historically adjacent portraiture.
The KM#3045 attribution places this firmly within the Pobjoy Mint-era Cook Islands collector output, a prolific program that regularly issued low-mintage silver pieces under Cook Islands authority for the international numismatic market rather than domestic circulation.