25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Adventures of Buratino

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.