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4 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mameshiba
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 2040 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS IRB 2020 |
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The Mameshiba series targets the Japanese collectibles market directly, drawing on the wildly popular Sanrio-adjacent character properties that dominated Japanese merchandising through the 2010s. Cook Islands has long functioned as a licensing vehicle for this kind of issue — its sovereign mint authority used almost entirely as a mechanism for producing small-format gold pieces aimed at gift and novelty buyers rather than numismatists.
At 1.03 grams of .9999 fine gold, the specification mirrors the Japanese "mame-kin" (bean gold) gift coin format that sells heavily in holiday retail channels in Tokyo and Osaka.