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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Benjamin Franklin
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely engraved frontal view of the Franklin Institute building in Philadelphia, rendered in meticulous architectural detail with a grand neoclassical façade featuring a pedimented portico with Corinthian columns and the inscription IN HONOR OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN incised across the entablature. An American bald eagle with wings spread is depicted in relief at the base of the building, below which appears the mint mark or issuer monogram within a cartouche. A color-printed waving American flag, rendered in full red, white, and blue enamel, flies prominently above the roofline. The border is composed of a ring of stars, with the date 2021 at the top and the legend FRANKLIN INSTITUTE in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue belongs to Cook Islands' long-running program of licensed commemoratives struck by the New Zealand Mint — a arrangement that has made Cook Islands one of the most prolific nominal issuers in modern numismatics despite having no meaningful domestic coin circulation. Benjamin Franklin's connection to silver is not incidental: as colonial postmaster and later diplomat, he was deeply involved in debates over specie supply in pre-Revolutionary America, where chronic silver shortages forced reliance on commodity money and foreign reales.