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50 Dollars Baiji Dolphins
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars (50 USD) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | BAIJI DOLPHIN 50 DOLLARS 1993 |
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The baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin, was already functionally endangered by 1993 — decades of dam construction, industrial pollution, and net fishing on the Yangtze had collapsed the population to a few dozen individuals. A 2006 survey found none. The species is now considered extinct, making this coin an inadvertent document of a conservation failure rather than a success.