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25 Dollars Alebrijes Pájaro
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2026 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A second Alebrije bird, rendered in the same Mexican folk-art idiom, fills the central field in full profile facing right. The body of the bird is densely decorated with concentric spirals, floral medallions, feather-scale patterns, and scrollwork in the Oaxacan tradition, creating a richly textured surface design. A reeded or dentilled inner border frames the composition, with the prooflike mirror field providing strong contrast to the deeply incuse patterned design. No legends or inscriptions appear on this face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alebrijes are a distinctly modern Mexican folk art form, invented by Pedro Linares López in the 1930s after he reportedly hallucinated fantastical hybrid creatures during a fever-induced coma. The tradition was later popularized through the papier-mâché work of the Linares family and the carved wooden figures of the Juárez family in Oaxaca — neither Mexican in origin nor particularly ancient, despite frequent mischaracterization as pre-Columbian.
Liberia's use of the motif here is purely commercial, issued under the country's longstanding practice of licensing culturally unrelated themes for the collector bullion market. At 0.062 grams of platinum, this is fractional coinage at its most marginal.