25 Cents - Elizabeth II Silver Star

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.