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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Otters
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1990-1991 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara and a pearl drop earring, as sculpted by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field and COOK ISLANDS along the right field, with the date 1991 positioned in the lower exergue beneath the portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 1991 |
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Cook Islands issued a wave of wildlife-themed copper-nickel five-dollar pieces in the early 1990s under a broader Pacific conservation coinage program — more fundraising vehicle than circulating currency. The otter subject likely references the sea otter, whose Pacific range gave regional issuers a plausible ecological claim on the motif.
KM#272 is one of dozens of similar issues from this period, when Cook Islands became a prolific source of collector-market coinage with little to no domestic circulation.