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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Sweet Pea
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Reverse description | Full-colour depiction based on Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies illustration, showing two fairy children associated with the Sweet Pea flower. The larger fairy, wearing a green and pink ruffled dress and iridescent wings with glitter effect, cradles a smaller, younger fairy dressed in soft lavender tones. The Sweet Pea flower stem and petals appear in the background. The trademarked legend FLOWER FAIRIES™ appears in a green cartouche at the centre-left of the field, and the inscription SWEET PEA is engraved in the upper right area of the field. |
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| Mintage | 2021 - Prooflike - 9,999 |
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Cook Islands has issued collector-focused small-denomination pieces under licensing arrangements for decades, with the nominal face value bearing no relation to actual monetary circulation. This 50-cent denomination will never see a cash register in Rarotonga.
The sweet pea — Lathyrus odoratus — was introduced to cultivation from Sicily in the late 17th century by the Sicilian monk Francis Cupani, who distributed seeds to correspondents across Europe beginning around 1699.