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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Duel on Cloud City
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, rendered in fine relief after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left periphery, COOK ISLANDS along the right, the date 2020 appears at the top of the field, and the denomination 50 CENTS is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Part of a broader wave of licensed pop culture issues that flooded the Pacific island mint-treaty market in the late 2010s, this piece was produced under Cook Islands' long-standing arrangement allowing third-party distributors — primarily European numismatic publishers — to use its sovereign authority for collectible coinage that never approaches the islands themselves. The nominal face value is essentially fictional; no vendor on Rarotonga would accept it at fifty cents.