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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Sea turtle watermark, visible when held to light. |
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The 1992 Cook Islands dollar series was issued following the government's decision to maintain its own currency despite the islands' free association with New Zealand — a politically deliberate choice that has kept Cook Islands notes perpetually scarce in circulation, since New Zealand dollars remain the dominant everyday medium of exchange. Thomas De La Rue handled the full series, as they had for much of the Pacific island currency work of that period.
P#8 is notoriously difficult to find in genuinely circulated grades precisely because so few ever left the islands in active use.