5 Dollars - Charles III Liberty Taming the West

Cook Islands has issued self-financing commemorative gold under New Zealand monetary authority since the 1970s, and the program is frankly prolific — hundreds of collector themes, most with no connection to the islands themselves. A 0.2g gold piece at 34mm diameter is an unusually thin, large-format planchet configuration designed to maximize visual surface area while keeping gold content — and therefore base cost — nearly negligible.