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Coin Invest
Context
Year: 2023
Issuer: Cook Islands
Issuing organization: CIT
Currency:
(since 1972)
Total mintage: 1,953
Material
Diameter: 45 mm
Weight: 62.2 g
Silver weight: 62.14 g
Shape: Round
Composition: 99.9% Silver
Magnetic: No
Techniques: Milled, Coloured
References
Numista: #363592
Value
Exchange value: 10 NZD = $5.99
Bullion value: $173.11

Obverse

Description:
Queen Elizabeth II's effigy with two climbers
Inscription:
ELIZABETH II 10 DOLLARS COOK ISLANDS

IRB

2023

ON 29 MAY 1953, NEW ZEALAND-BORN HILLARY AND HIS NEPALESE MOUNTAINEERING PARTNER TENZING NORGAY, BECAME THE FIRST HUMANS TO STAND ON THE SUMMITS OF EVEREST. AS MEMBERS OF THE 1953 BRITISH MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, THEIR TRIUMPH WAS THE GLORIOUS RESULT OF A LONG, COMPLEX AND BRILLIANTLY CO-ORDINATED CAMPAIGN.
Script: Latin

Reverse

Description:
Top of Everest
Inscription:
MT. EVEREST

1953 FIRST ASCENT
Script: Latin

Edge

Reeded

Categories

Geography> Mountain

Mintings

YearMint MarkMintageQualityCollection
20231,953Proof
Legendary