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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Stanley and Livingstone
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 1988 Cook Islands commemorative program was one of the more prolific in the Pacific island series, with the Stanley and Livingstone issue capitalizing on the centennial interest surrounding Victorian-era African exploration. David Livingstone died in 1873; Henry Morton Stanley's famous 1871 encounter at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika — producing the line "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" — predated the coin by over a century, leaving the precise commemorative rationale somewhat thin.
Cook Islands held no historical connection to either figure. The issue was produced squarely for the collector market.