Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 Cents - Elizabeth II 2nd portrait, Fairy Terns
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
|---|---|
| Year | 1972-1983 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Arnold Machin Reverse: George James Berry |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1972 - - 31,000 1972 - Proof - 17,000 1973 - - 49,000 1973 - Proof - 13,000 1974 - - 5,500 1974 - Proof - 7,300 1975 - - 60,000 1975 FM - Matte - 1,000 1975 FM - Proof - 21,000 1975 FM - Special Uncirculated - 2,251 1983 - - 1983 - BU - 1983 - Proof - 10,000 |
| Additional information |
Cook Islands gained self-governing status in 1965, and its first independent coinage — including this piece — was introduced in 1972, replacing the New Zealand currency that had circulated there. The Fairy Tern series was designed by James Berry, a New Zealand sculptor responsible for the entire inaugural Cook Islands coin set, which was notable at the time for featuring endemic wildlife rather than purely heraldic or colonial imagery.
The second portrait of Elizabeth II used here is the Arnold Machin effigy, introduced across Commonwealth coinage from 1968 onward.