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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th portrait
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem, with curled hair and a pearl drop earring visible. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left periphery and COOK ISLANDS along the right periphery in raised Latin characters. The date 2015 appears in the lower field, with the engraver's initials IRB incuse below the Queen's truncation. The design is struck on a dodecagonal (twelve-sided) flan with a uniformly textured field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS IRB 2015 |
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Cook Islands dollar coinage occupies an odd constitutional niche: the islands are self-governing in free association with New Zealand, meaning these pieces are legal tender locally yet rarely circulate in any meaningful volume, with the New Zealand dollar handling virtually all day-to-day commerce. The 2015 aluminium bronze five-dollar pieces were produced in this environment — collectible by design from the outset, not through any retrospective scarcity.