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50.000 Pesos Gorgona Island Park
| Issuer | Colombia |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central motif features a hammerhead shark skull rendered in high relief against a dark field. The Colombian coat of arms appears above the skull, flanked by the legend REPUBLICA de COLOMBIA arcing along the upper periphery and ISLA GORGONA along the lower. The date 2025 and the engraver's initials ВБ (Vitaly Bakhtinov) are inscribed in the field. The design is contained within the scalloped border of the coin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Cyrillic |
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Gorgona Island spent nearly three decades as Colombia's most feared maximum-security prison, operational from 1959 until its closure in 1984 under pressure from human rights organizations. The isolation that made it ideal for incarceration — strong currents, sharks, and no viable escape route — is the same geography that preserved its rainforest and reef ecosystems intact enough to warrant national park designation the following year.
Colombia's national park coin series has leaned heavily on silver-plated issues since the mid-2010s, threading commemorative ambition through a modest production budget.