Cook Islands has operated one of the more prolific commemorative programs in the Pacific since the 1970s, largely licensing its monetary authority to external minting houses — in this case almost certainly the Polish Mint (Mennica Polska), which has produced the majority of Cook Islands' large-format gilded silver issues in recent years. The Wheel of Life (Bhavachakra) subject places this squarely within a recurring series of Buddhist cosmological themes that proved commercially successful in European collector markets through the late 2010s.
KM#2748a designates the gilded variant, distinguished from the plain silver 2748.
Cook Islands has operated one of the more prolific commemorative programs in the Pacific since the 1970s, largely licensing its monetary authority to external minting houses — in this case almost certainly the Polish Mint (Mennica Polska), which has produced the majority of Cook Islands' large-format gilded silver issues in recent years. The Wheel of Life (Bhavachakra) subject places this squarely within a recurring series of Buddhist cosmological themes that proved commercially successful in European collector markets through the late 2010s.
KM#2748a designates the gilded variant, distinguished from the plain silver 2748.