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| Issuer | Dominica |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Currency | Eastern Caribbean Dollar (1965-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMINICA APRES BONDIE C`EST LA TER · 1988 · |
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| Mintage | 1988 - Proof - 10,000 |
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Dominica's Imperial Amazon parrot conservation coinage of the late 1980s was partly a response to CITES pressure and international attention on the near-extinction of Amazona imperialis, whose wild population had crashed to an estimated 60–80 individuals following Hurricane David in 1979. The Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority authorized these large-format silver issues specifically to generate foreign exchange and fund wildlife preservation efforts — one of the more direct cases of a coin issue with an explicit conservation funding mandate rather than a purely commemorative rationale.