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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Size | 151 × 75 mm |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Sea turtle watermark. |
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| Comments |
The Cook Islands' 1992 high-denomination series was a direct product of the islands' unusual constitutional arrangement — self-governing in free association with New Zealand, Cook Islands maintains its own currency despite the New Zealand dollar circulating freely alongside it. The practical effect is that local-issue notes like this fifty often sat in drawers and tills as curiosities rather than working tender, with New Zealand paper doing the actual heavy lifting in daily commerce.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement brought reliable intaglio production, but the security specification here is notably lean for a fifty-dollar face value — watermark only, no security thread.