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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Size | 151 × 75 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central intaglio vignette of a congregation departing a white coral-stone church, with palm trees framing the scene against a pastel underprint. To the left, a vertical arrangement of decorative shells and white tiare flowers forms a prominent border element. A Cook Islands Maori language legal tender inscription and the Minister of Finance signature appear to the right, with the printer's imprint along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The Cook Islands' 1992 high-denomination series was a direct product of the islands' unusual constitutional arrangement — self-governing in free association with New Zealand, Cook Islands maintains its own currency despite the New Zealand dollar circulating freely alongside it. The practical effect is that local-issue notes like this fifty often sat in drawers and tills as curiosities rather than working tender, with New Zealand paper doing the actual heavy lifting in daily commerce.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement brought reliable intaglio production, but the security specification here is notably lean for a fifty-dollar face value — watermark only, no security thread.