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25 Cents - Elizabeth II Silver Star
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed, realistically rendered starfish (sea star) occupies the central field, depicted in high relief with textured tubercles and ossicles across its five arms and central disc. The background carries the same geometric scale-pattern field as the obverse. The legend SILVER STAR arcs across the upper field, flanked by COOK ISLANDS to the left and FINE SILVER .9999 to the right, while 1/4 OUNCE and 25 CENTS appear in the lower field, with portions of the lettering oriented radially around the design. |
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| Mintage | 2021 |
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Cook Islands has operated one of the more prolific commemorative programs in the Pacific, frequently licensing its currency authority to overseas minting operations — this piece almost certainly originates from a European or Australian private mint rather than any domestic facility, as the islands maintain no mint of their own. The "Silver Star" designation refers to a shaped or specialty planchet program, a format aggressively marketed to collectors throughout the 2010s and early 2020s by mints competing for Pacific nation licensing contracts.