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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Spanish conquistador Alonso de Hojeda
| Issuer | Cook Islands Government |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing bust of Spanish conquistador Alonso de Hojeda in three-quarter view, depicted wearing a morion helmet adorned with feathered plumes and period armor with a ruffled collar. Behind the portrait, a large eight-pointed compass rose fills the central field. The commemorative legend 500 YEARS OF AMERICA 1492-1992 arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination 50 DOLLARS inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 YEARS OF AMERICA 1492-1992 50 DOLLARS |
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Alonso de Hojeda's 1499 voyage along the Venezuelan coast — made with Juan de la Cosa and Amerigo Vespucci aboard — was one of the first Spanish expeditions to reach the South American mainland after Columbus. Hojeda himself was a figure of genuine violence and administrative failure: he tortured indigenous leaders, was repeatedly jailed for misconduct in Hispaniola, and died destitute in Panama around 1515. Cook Islands issued numerous gold commemoratives throughout the early 1990s targeting the collector market around the 1992 Columbus quincentenary cycle, packaging peripheral figures from the Age of Discovery into a broadly marketable series.