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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II St. Andrew
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Weight | 25.0 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-color icon-style depiction of Saint Andrew the First-Called (Св. Ап. Андрей Первозванный), portrayed as a bearded elderly apostle wearing dark robes with a green mantle, a golden nimbus encircling his head, and holding a scroll in his right hand with his left hand raised to his chest in a gesture of prayer or blessing. The image faithfully reproduces the Byzantine iconographic tradition in full polychrome color printing applied to the silver field. The date '2011' is inscribed vertically along the lower left edge of the field. The Cyrillic legend 'СВ.АП. АНДРЕЙ ПЕРВОЗВАННЫЙ' is engraved in relief along the lower margin of the coin. |
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The St. Andrew series from Cook Islands is part of a broader wave of licensed commemorative silver issued through the New Zealand Mint, which has produced collector coinage for Cook Islands since the 1970s under a long-standing arrangement that exploits the territory's nominal sovereignty without requiring any domestic minting infrastructure. Cook Islands has no mint of its own; every coin bearing its authority is struck elsewhere.
The 25-gram specification sits outside both the standard one-troy-ounce and half-ounce formats, a deliberate commercial choice to distinguish the piece from bullion while keeping silver content high enough to justify the precious-metal premium.