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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Dama gazelle
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1990 PM |
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Cook Islands issued a wave of wildlife-themed silver pieces in the late 1980s and early 1990s under licensing arrangements that effectively turned the territory into a mint-for-hire for foreign bullion distributors. The dama gazelle — native to the Sahara-Sahel region and already critically endangered by 1990 — gave the series conservation credibility, though these coins were produced for collector export, not domestic circulation. Cook Islands had no meaningful numismatic tradition of its own; the issues exist entirely because New Zealand's free-association relationship left monetary policy flexible enough to permit them.