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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Egg in Gold
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS IRB 5 DOLLARS 2013 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Part of a broader wave of shaped and enameled issues that Cook Islands' licensing arrangements with the Pobjoy Mint and other private producers generated throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Cook Islands itself has no meaningful domestic coin circulation; its numismatic program exists entirely as a revenue and licensing operation, with face values bearing no relationship to any transactional economy on the islands.
The egg format places this within a collectibles category that peaked sharply around 2012–2015, driven heavily by Eastern European and Asian secondary markets.