25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Baekdusan

Baekdu Mountain — known in Chinese as Changbai — sits on the border between North Korea and China and carries enormous political weight in both countries. North Korea claims it as the birthplace of Kim Jong-il, a fiction propped up by the state for decades; South Korea enshrined it in the national anthem. The Cook Islands has no geographic or historical connection to the mountain whatsoever, making this a pure bullion-adjacent collector piece issued under the country's long-running licensing arrangements with foreign minting interests.