5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Princess Diana's 20th Death Anniversary

Diana Spencer died on 31 August 1997 in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, a death that triggered a public grief response the British establishment was wholly unprepared for. The decision to fly the flag at Buckingham Palace at half-mast came only after significant public and press pressure — the Palace's initial refusal became one of the more damaging moments for the monarchy in the late twentieth century. Cook Islands, a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand, has issued commemoratives of this type steadily since the 1990s, targeting the collector market rather than circulation.