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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II World Football Championship - Mexico 1986
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#70 |
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| Reverse description | Two association football players in dynamic action at the centre of the field, the left-hand figure executing a high kick toward a football while the right-hand figure advances in a challenging stance. The composition is rendered in high relief against a polished proof field. The circumferential legend FOOTBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP • MEXICO 1986 arcs around the upper portion of the rim, while the denomination 50 DOLLARS appears in bold lettering in the lower exergue, flanked by raised dot stops. |
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| Mintage | 1989 PM - Proof |
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Issued three years after the tournament it commemorates, this Cook Islands release was part of a broader wave of retrospective football commemoratives that flooded the collector market in the late 1980s. Mexico 1986 was a logical subject — the tournament had been hastily reassigned from Colombia in 1983 after that country withdrew citing financial strain, and Mexico became the first nation to host the FIFA World Cup twice.
KM#70 was struck by the Pobjoy Mint on behalf of Cook Islands, one of dozens of similar mandates the territory issued during this period as a revenue mechanism rather than for domestic circulation.