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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Hummingbird
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Weight | 7.78 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed naturalistic depiction of a Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) perched on a slender branch with foliage, rendered in fine relief against a smooth field. The bird is shown in profile facing left, with its distinctive crest and long bill clearly defined. The legend 'ENDANGERED WILDLIFE' arcs along the upper rim in two lines to either side, and the denomination '50 DOLLARS' is inscribed along the lower rim. The composition forms part of the Endangered Wildlife series. |
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Cook Islands leveraged its constitutional relationship with New Zealand throughout the 1980s and 1990s to issue a flood of gold and silver commemoratives aimed squarely at the collector market — pieces with no meaningful circulation history, produced in limited quantities by foreign mints and sold directly through dealer networks. The Hummingbird issue fits that model precisely.
The .583 fineness — 14-karat — was a deliberate cost-reduction choice that allowed a lower price point without reducing the coin's nominal face value, a formula common to Pacific island commemorative programs of this period.