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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Posthumous, Escape
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Engraver(s) | IRB (Ilya Repin Bullion) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, rendered in the style engraved by IRB, with an elaborate tiara and pearl drop earring visible in profile. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field and COOK ISLANDS along the right field, with the denomination 5 DOLLARS positioned in the lower exergue. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation of the bust. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands has operated one of the most prolific commemorative programs in the Pacific since the 1970s, functioning largely as a revenue vehicle for the New Zealand-administered territory rather than producing coins intended for domestic circulation. This "Escape" piece belongs to a wave of posthumous Elizabeth II issues rushed to market following her death in September 2022, with dozens of mints and issuing authorities scrambling to convert archival portrait rights into product within months.
The KM#3361 assignment suggests a catalog position deep in an already enormous Cook Islands sequence — by 2023, Krause had assigned the territory thousands of distinct numbers, a figure that itself tells you something about how these coins are made and why.