80 Years Of TV - 2006 Cook Island

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Cook Islands - 80 Years of Television - $1 - 2006 -This Brilliant Uncirculated Crown replicates the very first images transmitted to a television receiver in 1926.

John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images in tone graduations to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.

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0513H

Commemorative issue

80th Anniversary of the Television

Obverse

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS
2006

Reverse

Lettering:
80 YEARS OF TELEVISION
ONE DOLLAR