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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Starry Night

Issuer Cook Islands
Year 2015
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Shape Round
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering MASTERPIECES OF ART 2015 VINCENT VAN GOGH
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Van Gogh's The Starry Night entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1941, acquired from a dealer rather than directly from any estate — a provenance path that kept its price artificially low at the time. Cook Islands has issued numerous high-relief and printed silver pieces under licensing arrangements that allow it to commercialize imagery its own treasury would never otherwise control. This is one of those issues: a numismatic product sold primarily to collectors outside the Pacific, with Cook Islands functioning essentially as a licensing vehicle.

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