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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Brown Pelican, Colourised
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in right-facing portrait. Below the effigy, the weight and purity specifications are inscribed in the field. The surrounding legend reads EASTERN CARIBBEAN CENTRAL BANK, with the denomination TWO DOLLARS and the inscription QUEEN ELIZABETH II also present. The legend 1 OZ .999 SILVER confirms the coin's fine silver content. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts the Brown Pelican, national bird of Saint Kitts and Nevis, rendered in applied colour and shown mid-flight in the foreground. Behind the bird, sailboats are silhouetted against a scenic background featuring the coastline and islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The composition conveys a sense of tropical maritime atmosphere characteristic of the Eastern Caribbean. The island name and date appear as the principal legend. |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank serves eight island territories under a single currency — an arrangement dating to 1965 that makes attributing any individual coin to a specific issuing nation genuinely ambiguous. This piece falls under the ECCB's collector program, which has leaned heavily on wildlife subjects and applied colour technology to drive numismatic sales rather than circulation use.
The brown pelican was hunted to near-extinction across much of the Caribbean by the mid-twentieth century, largely due to DDT-related breeding failures and direct persecution by fishing interests who considered them competitors.