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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 25 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials 'IRB' appear below the truncation. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the left rim and 'COOK ISLANDS' along the right rim. Below the portrait, the denomination '5oz $25' appears to the left and the fineness mark 'Ag999' to the right, all within a wide mirror-polished field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS IRB 5oz $25 Ag999 |
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The Year of the Rat carries particular weight in the 2020 lunar cycle — it opened the twelve-year zodiac sequence and coincided, with grim timing, with the earliest weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak first identified in Wuhan in late 2019. Cook Islands has issued lunar-themed silver kilo and half-kilo pieces through the New Zealand–administered territory's licensing arrangements for decades, with the actual striking contracted to external mints rather than any facility on the islands themselves, which have no mint infrastructure.
At 155.5 g, this sits in the five-troy-ounce category that became a collector staple in the 2010s as spot silver remained low enough to make large-format issues commercially viable.