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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 1st Crusade
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse lettering | FIRST CRUSADE 1095 GODFREY OF BOUILLON 20 09 |
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| Mintage | 2009 - Antiqued - 1,000 |
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Cook Islands issued a long-running series of commemorative crowns nominally tied to the island nation but produced entirely for the collector market, with no meaningful connection to local circulation. This piece marks the First Crusade of 1096–1099, launched by Pope Urban II following his call at the Council of Clermont in 1095 — the same address that promised spiritual indulgence to any Christian who took up arms to reclaim Jerusalem, a political maneuver that set nearly a century of armed pilgrimage in motion.
The Crusader force that actually took Jerusalem in July 1099 was a fraction of the original army that had left Europe three years earlier.