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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Discovery of America
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 1992 |
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| Edge | Milled |
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The Cook Islands issued commemorative silver in large volumes throughout the 1980s and 1990s, often under arrangements with private minting agencies that held the actual production contracts. Many of these pieces were struck at the B.H. Mayer mint in Germany or the Pobjoy Mint in the UK rather than by any facility connected to the Cook Islands government itself. The .500 fineness here is a commercial-grade choice, not a numismatic one — it kept per-unit metal costs low while preserving the legal tender fiction required for licensing.
The 1992 date ties this to the quincentennial of Columbus's 1492 voyage, which generated an enormous wave of commemorative output globally.