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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mountain Chicken, Colourised
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II enclosed within a decorative wreath, with the surrounding legend arranged along the inner rim. The portrait is rendered in a mature likeness of the Queen in the numismatic tradition of Commonwealth issues. The legend includes the issuer name, denomination, metal specification, and royal title distributed around the periphery of the obverse field. |
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| Obverse lettering | EASTERN CARIBBEAN CENTRAL BANK 1 OZ .999 SILVER TWO DOLLARS QUEEN ELIZABETH II |
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The mountain chicken is neither a chicken nor a mountain dweller — it's a giant frog, Leptodactylus fallax, named by islanders for its taste when cooked. Once abundant across the Lesser Antilles, it now survives in the wild almost exclusively on Dominica and Montserrat, devastated by chytridiomycosis, a fungal pandemic that has driven amphibian extinctions globally since the 1980s. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank has issued wildlife conservation coins intermittently, but this particular subject carries unusual urgency — the IUCN lists the species as Critically Endangered, with wild population estimates running below 8,000 individuals.