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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Golden toad
| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A vivid full-color depiction of the extinct Golden Toad (Incilius periglenes) rendered in bright amber-orange tones, shown in a naturalistic pose against a lush tropical rainforest background in shades of green. The species' binomial name Incilius periglenes arcs along the left field in black lettering. The legend S.O.S TO THE WORLD appears in the upper right field. In the lower right, a black-and-white globe graphic framed by a crosshair motif bears the date 1989, commemorating the last confirmed sighting of the species. |
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The golden toad (Incilius periglenes) was declared extinct in 1989, making it one of the first species formally linked to climate-driven collapse — a distinction that gave it outsized symbolic weight in conservation debates throughout the 1990s and 2000s. It was last observed in the Monteverde cloud forest of Costa Rica in 1987, a single sighting of one male. Niue has built a substantial bullion and collector program around endangered and extinct fauna, and this issue falls squarely within that commercial strategy rather than any particular numismatic tradition of the island itself.