10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Brown Pelican

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, which serves eight island territories sharing the EC dollar, issued this pelican gold piece as part of a wildlife bullion series aimed squarely at the international collector market rather than domestic circulation. The Brown Pelican was delisted from the US Endangered Species Act in 2009 after a recovery effort spanning four decades — one of the more successful wildlife conservation stories in the Western Hemisphere, and the sort of politically safe subject that small issuing authorities favor when targeting export sales.