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200 Pesos San Benedicto island
| Issuer | Mexico |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 200 Pesos |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a dynamic marine wildlife scene depicting a flying fish leaping above the ocean surface and a blue marlin emerging from stylized waves below, rendered in fine relief against a stippled dark field suggesting open water. The denomination $200 appears prominently in the upper portion of the field, with the date 2024 inscribed to the left. The engraver's monogram ВБ (Cyrillic initials of Vitaly Bakhtinov) is discretely placed in the lower right field. Decorative marine elements including bubbles and wave lines animate the border segments of the octagonal flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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San Benedicto is one of the four Revillagigedo Islands, a Mexican archipelago roughly 700 km off the Pacific coast of Colima. The island was volcanically dormant until 1952, when an eruption destroyed the entire colony of Townsend's shearwaters nesting there — one of the few documented cases of a volcanic event driving a seabird population off an island entirely. The archipelago was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, largely on the strength of its marine biodiversity, including the resident oceanic manta rays that have made San Benedicto a fixture on technical diving itineraries.