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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Angels
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, with a pearl drop earring visible, after the portrait model by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials 'IRB' appear below the truncation. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the upper left rim and 'COOK ISLANDS' along the upper right rim, both in raised Latin characters. The denomination '20 DOLLARS' is inscribed along the lower rim. The field is polished to a proof finish, providing strong contrast against the finely detailed portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver under its own authority since the 1970s, a consequence of its status as a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand — it controls its own currency law but holds no central bank. By 2020, the islands' numismatic program had become one of the most prolific in the Pacific, with output driven almost entirely by European and North American collector demand rather than any domestic monetary need.
KM#2905 falls within a long-running Angels series that sources its iconography from medieval and Renaissance devotional art. The 93.3g specification is characteristic of the oversized "kilo-adjacent" format that became commercially dominant in the 2010s collector market.