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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mountain Chicken

Issuer Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
Year 2022
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Reference(s) KM#31
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Reverse script Latin, Latin (cursive)
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Mintage 2022 - BU - 25,000
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The mountain chicken is neither chicken nor mountain-dweller in any meaningful sense — it's a giant frog, Leptodactylus fallax, named for its reportedly poultry-like flavor and hunted nearly to extinction across Dominica and Montserrat as a result. By 2022, wild population estimates had collapsed to the low hundreds, driven by the chytrid fungal pandemic that devastated amphibian species globally from the 1990s onward. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's decision to feature it reflects genuine regional conservation alarm, not novelty marketing.

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