10 Pesos Ivory-billed Woodpecker

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.