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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Girl with a Pearl Earring
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Weight | 93.3 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, with the engraver's initials IRB incuse below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left rim and COOK ISLANDS along the upper right rim, with the denomination 20 DOLLARS inscribed at the base of the field. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands became a favored issuer for high-end numismatic novelties in the 2000s and 2010s, its licensing arrangements allowing private mints — primarily the Coin Invest Trust operation out of Liechtenstein — to produce elaborately finished collector pieces under its authority. This coin belongs to that wave of art-reproduction issues, which flooded the market heavily enough that secondary values on most pieces never recovered their issue prices.
Vermeer painted the original around 1665. No commissioner is known; no sitter has ever been identified with certainty.