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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mercury
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing a tiara and drop earring, with draped shoulders, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The portrait, based on the Ian Rank-Broadley model, occupies the central field with fine hair detail. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left, COOK ISLANDS curves along the upper right, the date 2009 descends along the lower right, and the denomination 5 DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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This piece belongs to Cook Islands' early foray into the collector bullion market, where the island nation — with no meaningful domestic coin circulation — licensed its name and royal portrait rights to overseas minting operations targeting the numismatic gift trade. The arrangement was commercially pragmatic; Cook Islands had little say in design choices.
The KM#783 assignment places it within a dense cluster of Cook Islands commemoratives registered in the same period, many sharing identical flans and differing only in applied reverse dies.