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Pillar of the Community
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Canada
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Hmmm...
A design that pleases neither monarchists nor the opposite.
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 United States
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That is... interesting.  If they had to put her head on the coin, then they should have put a tiny version next to the bell just like the eagle on the US Franklin half dollar.  |
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
United States
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FWIW: The National Collectors Mint has been releasing Cook Islands "coins" with the same Liberty Bell/QEII design since at least 2011. I'm aware of issued pieces in 0.999 fine silver and 0.24 fine gold.
Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Australia
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It should perhaps be pointed out that I seriously doubt anyone actually in the Cook Islands is aware of the existence of these "coins". Don't blame them; blame the Mint which the Cook Islands sold carte blanche coinage rights to.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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I agree, this is a boutique mint aimed at Americana collectors, they find some poor or flyspeck nation to issue these "coins" under and away they go.
Were they the ones blasted for selling so called "Gold" Liberty Tower coins, which turned out to be gold plated steel and had like 0.24% as in 24/10000ths not 24% gold?
Cook Islands are hardly angels, they have their own coins base don NZ Dollar, but have outsourced collectors products for years to dodgy American corporations. They got Free Association (Semi Independence in which Mama New Zeland paid for most things, defended them and gave them money, NZ citizenship and rights) in 1965 and promptly had their stamps issued by wallpaper producers Finnbar Kennie until 1994 and boy did they go to town.
The Cook Islands became 4 countries in one, with Cook Islands proper, Rarotonga, Penrhyn and Atiutaki all issuing piles of wallpaper stamps with definitive sets of 20 or more and values up to $10 in like 1975. There was overprints and surcharges galore.
Junk coin issuing started in the 1990s with silver dollars for sports stars, Americana and even 1 cent coins showing insects made out of silver.
After Kennie left, stamp issues withered away to nothing until 2012 when Philatelic Collector from New York (Ex crew members of Kennie group) started issuing garbage wallpaper stamps for all 4 entities again and some stamps up to $50 FV were issued multiple times for each island group and in minisheets. Of course like all wallpaper groups - virtually none for Islanders just rich cashed up Americans. PC also expanded in Tonga and Samoa and were kicked out of Samoa in 2016 when they issued many 20 and 50 Tala stamps, yet refused to issue 50 sene ones for local needs and Samoans were overprinting stamp issues from the 70s and 80s.
Basically Cook Islands is a flag of convenience and will do anything for a dollar, even now they are agitating for a travel bubble with us and the Prime Minister who looks and basically is White wants more money.
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All I know is that the crack on the Liberty Bell looks like a stream of blood, flowing from a decapitated head...  |
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Never seen one of those before!  The Westminster Collection keeps pushing Cook Islands 'coins' in the UK. |
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