2006 THE COOK ISLANDS "80 YEARS OF TELEVISION" ONE DOLLAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

  2006 The Cook Islands "80 Years of Television" One Dollar ($1) Coin.   To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first television, the Cook Islands issued this 39mm copper-nickel 1 Dollar coin in 2006. Pictured on the coin is a black and white picture of John L. Baird, the first successful inventor of electronic television, and a moving recreation of his first broadcast; a hand moving in front of a puppet. As the coin is tilted the image moves!  The obverse pictures Queen Elizabeth.  N.B. These are generic photos