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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mayflower
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a richly detailed high-relief scene depicting a group of Pilgrim settlers, men, women, and children, gathered together on elevated ground, evoking their arrival in the New World in 1620. The central male figure stands prominently among the assembled colonists, who are dressed in period costume and rendered with fine sculptural detail. In the lower portion of the field, a rectangular stone tablet bears an engraved quotation in capital letters attributed to William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony. The deeply sculpted composition fills the entire coin surface against a highly polished mirror field. |
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The Cook Islands has issued commemorative silver dollars tied to American historical themes since at least the 1990s, a practice enabled by the country's status as a self-governing realm in free association with New Zealand — meaning it can issue its own coinage while remaining outside direct British monetary control. This Mayflower piece marks the 400th anniversary of the 1620 voyage, the same commemorative window that prompted the U.S. Mint to issue its own half dollar under the America the Beautiful program.