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75 Dollars - Elizabeth II Love Angel
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting a cherubic love angel shown from the shoulders upward, with large outstretched wings and curled hair, resting its crossed arms upon an open book decorated below with a spray of foliage and vines. The inscription LOVE ANGEL arcs prominently across the upper field in bold raised lettering. The lower field bears the inscriptions 15 GMS, 75 Dollars, and .9995 PT in a horizontal arrangement, denoting the coin's weight, denomination, and platinum fineness. The design is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cook Islands leveraged its status as a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand throughout the 1990s to issue an aggressive series of precious-metal commemoratives — many struck by foreign mints on contract and sold directly into collector markets with no expectation of circulation. The Love Angel series was squarely part of that program, targeting the gift and romance coin market that briefly flourished among European and Japanese collectors in the mid-to-late 1990s.
Platinum at .9995 fineness in 1997 was still a relative novelty for commemorative coinage; spot prices that year hovered near $400 per troy ounce before surging past $500 by year's end.