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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II European Bison with Calf'
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1990 |
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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, modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The queen's bare shoulders and pearl necklace are visible below the truncation. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the left field and 'COOK ISLANDS' along the right, with the date '1990' inscribed in the lower exergue. The portrait is rendered in high relief consistent with the proof finish of the issue. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands issued a sprawling series of wildlife conservation coins in the late 1980s and early 1990s, many produced by the Pobjoy Mint under licensing arrangements that made the islands a vehicle for thematic collector issues rather than any domestic monetary policy. The European bison — wisent — had been declared extinct in the wild by 1927, surviving only in zoological collections before a painstaking captive-breeding program eventually reestablished wild herds in Poland's Białowieża Forest.
That recovery was still fragile in 1990, making the subject topical rather than merely decorative.