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25 Cents - Elizabeth II Sorcerer's Hat
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, with the engraver's initials IRB incuse below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left periphery, COOK ISLANDS along the right, the date 2020 above, and the denomination 25 CENTS below, all within the heptagonal flan. |
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| Reverse description | Full-color depiction of Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, rendered in vibrant cartoon style after the 1940 Disney film Fantasia. Mickey is shown facing slightly left, smiling broadly, dressed in his iconic red robe and lifting the blue star-adorned sorcerer's hat onto his head. The background features stylized silver wave motifs and decorative star elements in the field. The Disney script logo and the inscription FANTASIA 80 YEARS appear to the left of the central figure, with the copyright mark ©DISNEY along the right edge. |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative 25-cent pieces under licensing arrangements that have little to do with Cook Islands itself — the country's numismatic program is administered externally and targets collector markets rather than domestic circulation. This piece is iron-core with silver plating, a construction choice that keeps production costs low for high-volume novelty issues.
The KM#2793 reference places it within a sprawling run of licensed pop-culture releases from this period, where intellectual property agreements with major entertainment companies drove the designs rather than any monetary or historical rationale.