50 Pesos Colossus of Rhodes

Cuba's large-format silver program of the 1990s used the Seven Wonders series partly as hard currency bait — pieces like this were sold directly to foreign collectors and dealers to generate dollar revenue the domestic economy couldn't produce. The Colossus of Rhodes is a particularly apt subject: the original statue, likely cast in bronze over an iron armature by the sculptor Chares of Lindos around 280 BC, stood for less than 60 years before an earthquake dropped it in 226 BC. Ptolemy III reportedly offered to fund its reconstruction; the Rhodians declined, citing an oracle.