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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Great Smoky Mountains
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Obverse description | Third-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, as modelled by Raphael Maklouf, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, drop earrings, and a pearl necklace. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left rim and COOK ISLANDS along the upper right, with the date 1996 positioned centrally at the base. The engraver's initials RDM appear incuse on the truncation of the effigy. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands ran an extensive commemorative program throughout the 1990s, producing dozens of silver five-dollar pieces honoring American national parks and landmarks — a commercial series aimed squarely at the collector market rather than any domestic need. The Great Smoky Mountains, straddling the North Carolina–Tennessee border, became a U.S. national park in 1934 after a protracted land assembly effort that required the displacement of hundreds of Appalachian families, since most eastern parks lacked the federal land base available in the West.
Struck under license and distributed through third-party marketing channels, these issues never approached Cook Islands in any meaningful sense.