GDANSK Hanseatic League Hansa Silver Coin 5$ Cook Islands 2010

GDANSK Hanseatic League Hansa Silver Coin 5$ Cook Islands 2010The coin issued by Cook Islands is dedicated to the city of Gdansk. It belongs to “Hanseatic League” series. Gdansk, the city on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, was one of the principal cities of the Hanseatic League, a league of merchant cities which held a monopoly over the trade of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The functioning of the Hanseatic League is not only proof of early economic co-operation in Europe, but it also founded a social and cultural community which has left its mark throughout the