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20 Dollars - Charles III Pompeii
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Composition | Silver (.9999) |
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| Obverse description | High-relief effigy of King Charles III facing left, rendered in a contemporary portrait style by engraver Dominic Tompkins, whose initials 'DT' appear at the lower right of the bust truncation. The king is depicted in civilian dress with a collared jacket and open neckline. The circumferential legend reads '20 DOLLARS · CHARLES III · 2025 · COOK ISLANDS ·' arranged around the periphery of the field, with the denomination to the left and the issuer at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 DOLLARS · CHARLES III · 2025 DT · COOK ISLANDS · |
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Pompeii's destruction in 79 AD was documented firsthand by Pliny the Younger in two letters to Tacitus — the only eyewitness account of the eruption to survive antiquity. Excavation of the buried city began under the Bourbon king Charles VII of Naples in 1748, making the site's modern archaeological identity inseparable from royal patronage from the outset.
Cook Islands has become a dominant issuer in the high-relief numismatic silver market precisely because its licensing arrangements with the Perth and Bern mints allow production specifications that most sovereign mints won't accommodate for standard issues. The 93.3g weight places this squarely in the three-troy-ounce category.