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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Bremen Town Musicians - The Genius Detective
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Thickness | 2.9 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials 'IRB' appear below the truncation. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the left field and '5 DOLLARS COOK ISLANDS' along the upper right, all rendered in Latin characters against a deeply mirrored proof field. The date '2011' is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The Bremen Town Musicians entered the Grimm canon in 1819 with the second edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen, though the tale itself draws on much older oral traditions circulating through Lower Saxony. Cook Islands issued a series of themed silver dollars in this period targeting the collector novelty market, often pairing literary subjects with embedded elements or shaped planchets — the "Genius Detective" subtitle here refers to a companion series format rather than any narrative crossover.