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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Bremen Town Musicians - The Robbers
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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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 upper left, 5 DOLLARS along the upper right, and COOK ISLANDS along the right periphery, all in raised Latin lettering against a deeply mirrored proof field. The date 2011 appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Mintage | 2011 - In the Proof set - 300 2011 - Proof - 1,700 |
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Part of a Cook Islands series issued around 2011 commemorating the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, this piece draws on "The Bremen Town Musicians" — a story first published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in their 1819 second edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen, though the tale itself is considerably older in oral tradition. The specific "Robbers" scene, in which the animals frighten away a gang of thieves by producing a cacophony in the dark, is the dramatic climax of the story.
Cook Islands has issued silver in this format extensively as a licensing vehicle; collector demand rather than any monetary function drives these series entirely.