5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Lion

Cook Islands issued a wave of commemorative copper-nickel five-dollar pieces in the late 1980s and early 1990s targeting the collector market directly — many were never intended to circulate and were sold through Franklin Mint-style distribution channels. KM#226 falls squarely in that production run, a period when small Pacific island nations routinely licensed their minting authority to generate revenue from foreign collectors rather than domestic commerce.