GDANSK Hanseatic League Hansa Silver Coin 5$ Cook Islands 2010

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 region, particularly in the self-contained architectural world of brick Gothic. The coin obverse depicts the city in very high details, in particular the medieval port crane, called Zuraw over Motlawa river. The coin depicts also the actual Coat of Arms and the inscription of the latin motto: "Nec Temere, Nec timide" (Neither rashly, nor timidly). The reverse, common for all coins in the series, shows Queen Elisabeth II effigy and a stylized image of the cities that belonged to the Hanseatic League.