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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Kaa
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl drop earring. The legend ELIZABETH II and 5 DOLLARS are inscribed in the upper field, with COOK ISLANDS along the right rim. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation, and the date 2011 is inscribed in the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | Colorized depiction of Kaa, the giant python character from the Soviet animated film series by Soyuzmultfilm, rendered in polychrome enamel with brown, beige, and dark tones against a partially black lower field. The coiled snake is shown facing left with hypnotic blue eyes, while a small grey figure of Mowgli crouches in the foreground. Ancient jungle ruins are depicted in relief in the background. The name KAA appears as a bold legend in the upper field, and the Soyuzmultfilm copyright mark is inscribed at the lower left. |
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Kaa, the python from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, appeared on a wave of Cook Islands collector issues produced in the early 2010s under licensing arrangements that turned the Pacific nation into one of the busiest novelty bullion mints of that decade. Cook Islands has no meaningful domestic coin circulation; its numismatic program exists almost entirely as a revenue vehicle, with the New Zealand dollar serving actual transactional needs on the islands.