60 Dollars - Elizabeth II Year of the Millennium Dragon

Cook Islands has issued commemorative gold under its own authority since the 1970s, a arrangement that allows foreign mints to produce collectibles bearing its name while the pieces see no domestic circulation whatsoever. This 2000 Millennium Dragon issue is squarely in that tradition — a bullion-adjacent collector piece timed to the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunisolar calendar, aimed at Pacific Rim buyers at the turn of the century.

The .9999 fineness places it among the purer gold issues of the period, finer than the Krugerrand or American Eagle standards then dominant.