LEONOV First Walk Man in Space Silver Coin 1$ Cook Islands 2009

The coin's reverse combines struck and coloured elements portraying a cosmonaut outside the orbiting Voskhod II capsule. The design, which includes the inscription 1965 – FIRST SPACE WALK, ‘orbits' around a coloured image of Earth. Thanks to the coin's unique construction, these design elements literally ‘orbit' around a coloured representation of Earth. Issued as legal tender under the authority of the Government of the Cook Islands, the coin's obverse depicts the Raphael Maklouf effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the 2009 year-date and the monetary denomination surrounding another coloured image of the Earth.