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15 000 Pesos Ocelot
| Issuer | Colombia |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | G. 33.437 15000 PESOS LEY 0.900 (Translation: 33.437 grams 15000 pesos 0.900 fineness) |
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Issued as part of Colombia's conservation series, this coin was produced specifically to raise international awareness and funds for endangered native fauna — a program coordinated in part with the WWF during the 1970s. The ocelot was among several species selected because Colombian habitat destruction had accelerated sharply in the preceding decade. These pieces were struck for collectors and diplomatic gift sets rather than circulation, which explains their consistently clean surfaces in the secondary market.
Fr#140 places it firmly within the French numismatic gold reference tradition of cataloguing Latin American issues, a classification that reflects how much of this series was marketed toward European collectors at the time of issue.