25 Dollars Alebrijes Pájaro

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.