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An Adventurous Polynesian from the Cook Islands

$3 1987

The Cook Islands began issuing paper money in 1987, previously they used New Zealand currency in circulation. The release of this issue with "Ina and the Shark" on it, and on the $10 and $20 notes was popular with collectors because of the obvious design of the note. Ina and the Shark is a popular legend in the Island group about a girl who road through the seas on the back of a shark, when she was thirsty she would break a coconut on the sharks dorsal fin to crack it open and get the coconut juice. Once she cracked the coconut on the sharks head, angering him, so that the shark dumped her to be rescued by Tekea the Great, the king of all sharks. This issue was replaced with a newer issue in 1992, which all other than the $3 notes were recalled and Reserve Bank of New Zealand notes resumed circulation in the Cook Islands. This note is P3 in the Krause catalog.

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