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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Johann Sebastian Bach
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, after the portrait by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left periphery, COOK ISLANDS along the right, and the date 1992 appears in the lower exergue below the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued as part of the wave of Cook Islands commemorative silver struck in the early 1990s — much of it produced by the Pobjoy Mint for foreign distribution rather than local use — this piece honors Bach on the broad anniversary circuit that followed the 1985 tercentenary of his birth. Bach died in Leipzig in 1750, nearly blind from botched eye surgery performed by the itinerant English oculist John Taylor, who also operated on Handel with equally disastrous results.