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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Flight into Egypt
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS IRB 20 DOLLARS |
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The "Flight into Egypt" belongs to Cook Islands' broader collaboration with the Mint of Poland, which produced a series of large-format silver devotional pieces aimed squarely at the Catholic collector market throughout the early 2010s. These issues were legal tender in name only — Cook Islands has used the New Zealand dollar as its actual circulating currency since 1995, making the face value a formality attached to coins that were never intended to leave a display case.
The Mint of Poland became the dominant producer of this genre, developing proprietary techniques for antique finishing and selective gilding on high-relief blanks at this weight range.