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| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 2009 - Proof - 500 |
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Sofiyivka park in Uman, Ukraine, was commissioned in 1796 by Polish magnate Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki as a gift to his wife Zofia — built almost entirely by serf labor. It passed to the Russian imperial crown in 1832 and became a center of botanical research under the Kyiv University system. The Cook Islands issued this piece as part of a broader run of Ukrainian natural heritage coins during the late 2000s, a commercially driven series with no connection to Ukrainian monetary authority.