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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Robert Fulton
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Thickness | 3.15 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, drop earring, and beaded necklace, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left field and COOK ISLANDS along the upper right, with the date 1991 positioned at the base of the coin in the lower field. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 YEARS OF AMERICA 1492-1992 50 DOLLARS |
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Robert Fulton's 1807 voyage up the Hudson aboard the Clermont is routinely cited as the birth of commercial steam navigation, though Fulton himself was less inventor than financier and promoter — the engine was imported from Boulton & Watt in Birmingham. Cook Islands issued a considerable number of silver commemoratives in the early 1990s through licensing arrangements that had little connection to the subjects honored, most targeting collector markets rather than circulation.
KM#194 belongs to a broader Cook Islands series commemorating figures in transportation history.