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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Little Spotted Kiwi, Silver Proof

Issuer Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Year 2004
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 2004 - Proof - 2,000
Additional information

The Little Spotted Kiwi — Apteryx owenii — was by 2004 functionally extinct on the New Zealand mainland, surviving only on Kapiti Island and a handful of managed offshore sanctuaries following eradication campaigns against introduced predators. The species had been gone from the main islands for decades by the time this coin was struck, which gives the issue a quietly elegiac character that the mintage figures alone don't convey.

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