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| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1246 |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 20 DOLLARS |
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| Mintage | 2010 - Proof - 1,655 |
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Cook Islands has issued devotional silver in large formats since the 1990s, often under licensing arrangements that place the actual design and distribution work with European minting houses — Austria's Münze Österreich and several private Austrian firms handled the bulk of this trade. The KM#1246 attribution places this squarely within that wave of collector-targeted religious issues that flooded the market around 2008–2012, most struck to order with strictly controlled mintages and no intention of circulation.
The 93.3g weight is not arbitrary — it corresponds to 3 troy ounces of .999 fine silver, a standard module used repeatedly across this commercial series.