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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait, Kakapo Bird, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed rendition of the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus), a critically endangered flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand, is depicted in profile facing right and standing upon a naturalistic forest floor. To the left and arching above the bird, a frond of Blechnum fern lends botanical accuracy and compositional balance to the design. The species name and denomination appear in the surrounding legend, distributed around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ONE DOLLAR KAKAPO |
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New Zealand's kakapo dollar arrived at a moment when the species' survival was genuinely in doubt. By the mid-1980s, the total known population had collapsed to fewer than 40 individuals, and the Department of Conservation's emergency translocation program — moving remaining birds to predator-free offshore islands — was still years from showing results. This coin preceded that recovery effort, issued when extinction looked like the more probable outcome.
KM#57a is the silver proof variant of a base-metal circulation issue struck the same year, differentiated by composition and finish rather than design revision.