5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Great Smoky Mountains

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.