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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Christ the Redeemer
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a world map rendered in low relief across the field, with meridian and parallel grid lines engraved across both hemispheres, depicting the continents of the Eastern and Western worlds. The design incorporates two large cutouts — one upper left and one lower centre — which form part of the coin's distinctive openwork silhouette. A right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after Ian Rank-Broadley, appears in the lower right field, with the engraver's initials IRB visible below the portrait. The legend '2022 · COOK ISLANDS · 50 CENTS' arcs along the upper rim, and 'ELIZABETH II' is inscribed along the lower border. The coin is struck in antiqued finish, lending a silver-grey patina to the entire surface. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2022 · COOK ISLANDS · 50 CENTS IRB ELIZABETH II |
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Cook Islands has issued commemorative coinage under licensing arrangements for decades, with much of the actual design and distribution handled by European trading houses rather than the islands' own monetary authority. This piece is part of that broad commercial pipeline — a souvenir instrument with nominal legal tender status in a jurisdiction that uses the New Zealand dollar for everyday transactions.
Iron as a base composition keeps production costs low enough to support high-volume themed releases of this kind. KM#3223 sits in a catalog sequence that runs into the thousands for Cook Islands alone.