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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Withering Blaze
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Withering Blaze" belongs to a wave of privately commissioned bullion and collectible issues that Cook Islands authorized from the mid-2000s onward, a licensing arrangement that has made the territory one of the most prolific legal-tender issuers on the numismatic market despite having a population of roughly 17,000. The actual minting was contracted to a third-party facility — almost certainly the Scottsdale Mint or a comparable private operation — with Cook Islands providing the legal-tender framework and little else.
KM#2599 sits in a catalog that now runs to thousands of entries for this issuer alone, a volume that has drawn persistent criticism from purists who argue these issues dilute the concept of national coinage.