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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Captain Cook: Charting the Southern Seas
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CHARTING THE SOUTHERN SEAS CAPTAIN COOK 1770 |
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Cook Islands issues commemoratives prolifically — hundreds of themes a year — but this piece has a legitimate nominal connection: the islands bear Cook's name following his first Pacific voyage of 1768–71 aboard HMS Endeavour, during which he charted New Zealand's coastline with a precision that astonished European cartographers. His 1770 landfall on the Australian east coast at Botany Bay followed directly from that same expedition.
The KM#2675 attribution places it within the vast New Zealand Mint-produced series for the Cook Islands government, whose coin program functions primarily as a licensing revenue stream rather than a circulating currency.