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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Adventures of Buratino
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#2024 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Colorized scene depicting characters from the Soviet animated film 'The Adventures of Buratino' (1975), produced by Soyuzmultfilm studio. The design features a vibrant, hand-painted color application over a finely detailed silver relief, illustrating key figures from the story in a narrative composition. The Cyrillic legend 'ПРИКЛЮЧЕНИЯ БУРАТИНО' arcs along the upper portion of the field, with the registered trademark inscription 'СОЮЗМУЛЬТФИЛЬМ®' appearing in the lower portion of the design. |
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Buratino — the Soviet-era wooden boy conceived by Aleksei Tolstoy in his 1936 adaptation of Pinocchio — became one of the most enduring children's characters in Russian cultural memory, with the 1975 Lenfilm musical adaptation reaching near-universal recognition across the USSR. Cook Islands served throughout the 2000s and 2010s as the issuing authority of choice for Russian and Eastern European bullion commemorative programs, providing legal tender status to collector pieces that were designed, marketed, and sold almost entirely outside the islands themselves.