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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Issuer Cook Islands
Year 2011
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Weight 25.0 g
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Obverse lettering COOK ISLANDS 5 DOLLARS ELIZABETH II
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Reverse lettering БОГДАН ХМЕЛЬНИЦЬКИЙ 2011 1648-1657
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Khmelnytsky's 1648 uprising against Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule remains one of the most consequential conflicts in Eastern European history, ultimately drawing the Cossack Hetmanate into the 1654 Pereyaslav Agreement with Muscovy — a treaty whose interpretation has been contested by Ukrainian and Russian historians ever since, each claiming it as evidence for opposing readings of sovereignty. Cook Islands has issued numerous collector pieces commemorating figures from nations with large diaspora populations, a reliable commercial market rather than any territorial connection to the subject.

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