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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Eight Immortals Crossing Sea
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2004 - Proof |
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The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea is one of the most enduring narratives in Chinese Taoist tradition, drawn from Ming dynasty literary sources and depicting eight figures each using their personal emblem — rather than a shared vessel — to cross the sea to a celestial gathering. Cook Islands became a prolific issuer of large-format silver commemoratives in the early 2000s, producing pieces aimed squarely at the Southeast Asian collector market where this iconography carries deep cultural resonance.
At 155.5 grams of .999 silver, this is a five-troy-ounce piece — a format favored for its display weight rather than any circulation function.