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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Hamilton's Frog, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | HAMILTON'S FROG FIVE DOLLARS |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Hamilton's frog (*Leiopelma hamiltoni*) survives on a single rocky outcrop — Stephens Island in the Marlborough Sounds — where the entire wild population numbers in the low hundreds. New Zealand's conservation coinage program has consistently highlighted species whose ranges have contracted to near-absurd specificity, and this issue fits that pattern precisely. The frog itself is a Jurassic-lineage relict; its ancestors preceded the extinction of the dinosaurs.