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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Hansel and Gretel
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | FAIRY TALES 20 DOLLARS IRB ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS |
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| Reverse lettering | 2022 |
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Cook Islands has issued silver under licensing arrangements for decades, with the actual distribution handled almost entirely by European and North American bullion dealers rather than through any domestic monetary channel. This piece is part of a broader fairy-tale series produced for the collector market, with the Grimm brothers' 1812 publication of "Hänsel und Gretel" providing the intellectual property — a story that was itself a reworked oral folk tale, considerably darker in its original recorded form than most collectors likely recall.