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10 Pesos Ivory-billed Woodpecker
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (Campephilus principalis bairdii) are depicted in a naturalistic composition set against a deeply mirrored proof field. In the left portion of the field, rendered in matte relief, one bird clings to the textured bark of a tree trunk near a nest cavity. To the right, a second bird is shown perched prominently in the foreground, its distinctive plumage and ivory bill finely detailed, while a third specimen is depicted in flight with wings fully extended. The date 1994 appears in the lower right field, the Mexican Mint mark (Mo) is positioned at the lower centre, and the species name Carpintero real is inscribed along the lower arc, with the series legend ENCUENTRO DE DOS MUNDOS curving along the upper periphery. |
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The ivory-billed woodpecker was almost certainly already functionally extinct in Cuba by 1994, with the last credible Cuban sightings dating to the 1980s in the old-growth forests of Oriente province. That the Cuban mint chose it for a conservation series coin at precisely this moment was either an act of ecological mourning or a quiet admission that the species was gone — depending on who you ask.