1978 Cook Islands Proof Set with Silver $5 Government Package. Minted at the Franklin Mint . Each of the 1978 coins of the Cook Islands bears an original design reflecting the natural riches and the Polynesian heritage of the islands. The five-dollar coin, minted in .500 fine silver ( ASW 0.4389oz ) portrays the Polynesian warblers by nest in branches, denomination below , edge lettering : 1978 CAPT. JAMES COOK 1978. The ancient god Tangoroa, encircled by stars representing the 15 Cook Islands, is shown one the one-dollar coin. The bonito, a game fish that is also commercially valuable , is shown on the fifty-cent piece. And the magnificent Pacific Triton seashell, used by Cook Islanders in the past for religious rites, appears on the twenty-cent piece. Oranges in a cluster of ten leaves are depicted on the ten-cent coin. A variety of the graceful hibiscus with five petals appears on the five-cent piece, two pineapples on two-cent coin and leaf of the taro plant on the one-cent coin.

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