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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Birth of Venus
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as rendered by engraver Ian Rank-Broadley. The effigy is depicted with fine detail in the hair and drapery, occupying the central field of the coin. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the left rim and 'COOK ISLANDS' along the right rim, both in raised Latin characters. The denomination '20 DOLLARS' is inscribed along the lower rim beneath the portrait. The field is plain and polished, providing strong contrast to the high-relief bust. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 20 DOLLARS |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver in extraordinary volume since the 1970s, and by 2008 the program had expanded well beyond any pretense of domestic monetary relevance — the islands' GDP at the time was under $200 million USD, making a 93-gram silver coin a purely philatelic product from inception. This piece belongs to a wave of art-themed issues that flooded the collector market in the late 2000s, largely distributed through European dealers and Franklin Mint-adjacent fulfillment networks rather than through any numismatic channel connected to the Pacific.
KM#639 is catalogued but thinly documented in terms of mintage figures.