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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Sieur de la Salle
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three-quarter portrait bust of the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, facing slightly left, with long flowing curly hair and period costume, occupying the left half of the field. To the right, an outline map of North America with a line indicating La Salle's exploratory route is depicted against the mirror-polished field. The denomination $50 appears at lower right. The legend SIEUR DE LA SALLE arcs along the upper periphery, and the design is framed by a decorative inner border of alternating segments. The Franklin Mint mark FM appears at lower right near the border. |
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for Louis XIV in 1682, naming it Louisiana. His later attempt to establish a French colony at the river's mouth ended in catastrophe — he missed the delta entirely, landed in Texas, and was murdered by his own men in 1687 near present-day Navasota.
Cook Islands issued a broad series of silver $50 commemoratives through the late 1980s covering explorers of the Americas, KM#69 being one entry among many in that run.