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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Berry Portrait, Takahe Bird
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | ONE DOLLAR TAKAHE |
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The takahē was declared extinct in 1898 after decades of habitat loss and predation by introduced mammals. That assumption held for fifty years until Geoffrey Orbell, a Southland doctor with a persistent hunch, located a living population in the Murchison Mountains in 1948 — one of the more remarkable rediscoveries in ornithological history. The species' appearance on this coin reflects a conservation urgency that was very real by the early 1980s, when the total population remained critically low and active recovery programs were still in their infancy.