COOK ISLANDS - $3 Commemorative Banknote, featuring Ina and Shark. Issued by The COOK ISLANDS GOVERNMENT - Ministry of Finance and Economic Management.
Dated and issued in 1992 to commemorate the Pacific Arts Festival October 16th-27th 1992 - Crisp, clean and just as issued - grades Uncirculated
Catalogue Reference:- Pick#6. $3 Dollars 1992 issue Commemorative Banknote (In the Cook Islands the New Zealand Dollar is the circulating currency used. The Cook Islands also issues its own distinctive notes and coins which are in circulation alongside the $NZ and are pegged to the value of the NZ$).
The note is printed on White Paper in Shades of Green and Multicolours. The note features the legend of Ina* and the Shark on the face of the note -
*Ina was betrothed to Tinirau, the God of the Ocean who lived on a floating island, miles away from her own home. She longed to be with her true love and the only way to reach him was to cross over the sometimes-ferocious sea. She tried to get help in this perilous venture from a variety of sea creatures but it was only when she asked Tekea the Shark to take her to the island where Tinirau was, that she got a positive response. During the journey she got hungry, so she cracked open one of the coconuts she had brought with her on the shark. According to the legend this is how sharks acquired a dent on their heads.
The reverse of the banknote features a typical Cook Islands fishing canoe/boat as the main image, at the right-hand side of the note is a carving of the god Tangaroa (the Māori God of the Sea). It has an official overprint at the lower left stating - 5th FESTIVAL of PACIFIC ARTS RAROTONGA COOK ISLANDS OCTOBER 16-27, 1992.
The note is printed on paper and has no security features, save for the Serial number, which is printed in Blue at the lower left corner and the lower centre right - AAR 016495.
The note is signed at the lower right corner on the face by Sir Thomas Davis who served his second term as Prime Minister and Finance Minister between 1983 and 1987. Above his signature are the following words in the Cook Islands Māori language - ‘KO TEIA KURA E KURA AKAMANA IA I RARO AKE I TE TURE MONI E $3 TORU TARA'. This means roughly something like - ‘This note can be lawfully accepted to pay amounts of 3 New Zealand Dollars in the Cook Islands'.
Coo Islands banknotes wwere printed for the Cook Islands by Note Printing Australia, a subsidiary company of The Reserve Bank of Australia.
This banknote is like the first ever type of a series of banknotes issued by the Cook Islands in modern times and the first Commemorative note with an overprint on a regular banknote. These notes are highly sought after by collectors.
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