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Cook Islands 2014 The Annunciation by Champaigne $20 Silver Proof Coin Christmas
Cook Islands 2014 The Annunciation by Champaigne $20 Silver Proof Coin ChristmasMasterpieces of Art Series. 999 Silver Proof Coin with 16 Colored Swarovski crystals inlaid into the frame of the art. Was painted by de Champaigne for the private chapel of Queen Anne of Austria (16011666), the widowed wife of Louis XIII, located in the Palais Royal, Paris, and decorated by the most prominent French painters of the day. The obverse of the coin traditionally bears the portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Along the rim there are inscriptions of the Queens name, the face value of the coin,