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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Fighting Fish
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 5 DOLLARS |
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| Reverse lettering | SHADES OF NATURE '16 |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver under its own authority since the 1970s, leveraging its status as a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand to attract collector-market contracts from international minting houses. The "Fighting Fish" belongs to a run of high-relief, smartly marketed natural history issues produced during a period when the Pacific island commemorative market was glutted with competing programs from Niue, Palau, and Tuvalu — all chasing the same buyer demographic.
KM#2405 was struck by the Mint of Poland on behalf of the Cook Islands government, a arrangement typical of these programs where the issuing authority provides legal legitimacy while the technical production occurs entirely elsewhere.