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4 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mermaid
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 4 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS IRB 2021 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands has issued gold in fractional sizes for decades, but this piece belongs to a wave of sub-gram and just-over-gram issues that flooded the collector market in the 2010s and early 2020s — produced almost entirely for sale to hobbyists rather than any meaningful circulation. The $4 denomination is purely nominal, bearing no relationship to the coin's gold value or to any transactional currency used on the islands.
Struck by a contracted European mint on behalf of Cook Islands, whose government licenses its monetary authority for exactly this purpose.