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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Father Jacques Marquette

Emittent Cook Islands
Jahr 1993
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Währung Dollar (1972-date)
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Aversbeschreibung Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, with a pearl drop earring and necklace visible. The portrait is rendered in fine relief against a polished field, in the style of the Raphael Maklouf third portrait. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left periphery and COOK ISLANDS along the right, with the date 1993 inscribed in the exergue below the bust.
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Jacques Marquette was a French Jesuit missionary who, with Louis Jolliet, paddled down the Mississippi River in 1673 — the first Europeans documented to have done so from the north. He died two years later at roughly age 37, somewhere on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, likely of dysentery. His remains were later exhumed by Indigenous converts and reinterred at Saint Ignace, Michigan, where a university now carries his name.

The Cook Islands issued a substantial run of commemorative silver dollars throughout the early 1990s covering explorers and missionaries of this type — this piece sits within that broader program, struck to .925 fineness at a weight matching the standard modern commemorative ounce format.

Wait — I must correct myself per Rule 3: I restated composition and weight as filler. Rewriting:

Jacques Marquette was a French Jesuit missionary who, with Louis Jolliet, paddled the length of the upper Mississippi in 1673 — the first Europeans documented to have done so from the north. He died the following year near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, likely of dysentery, aged around 37. His remains were later reinterred at Saint Ignace by Indigenous converts who had carried them by canoe.

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