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50 Dollars - Charles III Nello and Patrash
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Coloured central vignette depicting animated characters Nello and Patrash from the 1975 Japanese anime series, shown seated together — Nello as a young boy in a blue cap and violet waistcoat, and Patrash as a large Bouvier des Flandres dog. Behind them, within an arched frame, appears a colour reproduction of Peter Paul Rubens' painting 'Assumption of the Virgin' as housed in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp. To the left stands a windmill motif and ornate scrollwork decorates the border. The denomination '$50' appears at the base, with the fineness '.9999' inscribed in the lower field. The legend 'Nello and Patrash 50th Anniversary' arcs along the upper periphery, with the inscription 'Assumption of the Virgin / Rubens, Cathedral of Our Lady' in the lower central field and the copyright mark '©N.A' at the left. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Nello and Patrash are the central characters of A Dog of Flanders, the 1872 novella by the British author Ouida, set in the Flemish countryside near Antwerp. Though largely forgotten in the English-speaking world, the story became a cultural phenomenon in Japan after a 1975 anime adaptation, generating a pilgrimage tourism industry to Antwerp that persists to this day — the city eventually erected a statue of the pair in 2016, driven almost entirely by Japanese visitor demand.
Cook Islands has built a substantial collector market issuing gold and silver pieces tied to beloved fictional and animated properties, particularly those with Japanese fan bases.