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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Queen Mother and Daughters
| Issuer | Government of the Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 1996 |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts a bas-relief group portrait of Queen Elizabeth (then Duchess of York) seated centrally, wearing a pearl necklace and period dress, flanked by her two daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, in an intimate familial composition recalling the year 1936. The scene is encircled by a beaded inner border. The upper legend arcs 'QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER' along the rim, with the secondary legend 'THE DUCHESS OF YORK AND HER TWO DAUGHTERS' following the inner beaded circle. The denomination '5 DOLLARS' appears at the base, with the commemorative date '1936' above it. |
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Issued as part of the Cook Islands' prolific commemorative program of the 1990s, a period when the territory's government leaned heavily on licensed coin producers — primarily the Pobjoy Mint and B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt — to generate foreign currency revenue through collector sales rather than circulation. These issues were struck in quantities calibrated entirely to the speculative market of the era, which subsequently collapsed, leaving most 1990s Cook Islands commemoratives chronically oversupplied relative to collector demand.