25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Abraham Lincoln

This issue belongs to Cook Islands' long-running practice of licensing its monetary authority to private minting operations — primarily the New Zealand-based Mints and European distributors who produce large-format commemorative silver for the collector market rather than circulation. Cook Islands has no meaningful domestic coin economy; its currency relationship with New Zealand means these pieces are legal tender in name only.

Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865 came just five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox — a timing that shaped how Reconstruction was handled in ways that arguably defined the next century of American racial politics.