Cuban Coin Commemorating the Ivory Bill Woodpecker?

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  1. midas1

    midas1 Exalted Member

    Hi, a friend is looking for a Cuban Coin Commemorating the Ivory- Billed Woodpecker. I did a Google search for it but it didn't turn up. Anybody heard of it? Where else can I look for one?

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  3. hontonai

    hontonai Registered Contrarian

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    KM#768 (15g .999 silver, 5000 proofs minted) is identified by Krause as
    • "Cuban green woodpecker" online at Numismaster.com (source of the photos)
    • "Multicolor woodpecker" in the 2007 Premier Ed. Krause 21st Century print volume, and
    • "Cuban red-bellied woodpecker" in the 2008 2d Ed. of that same work.

    It is also the only woodpecker I can find among the many aviary denizens in the 19th-21st Century listings for Cuba.

    Anyway, according to this site the ivory-billed woodpecker is "thought to be extinct".
     
  4. midas1

    midas1 Exalted Member

    Great. That's it!

    Thanks
     
  5. midas1

    midas1 Exalted Member

    I can't get a price from that website unless I pay to subscribe. Any suggestions for purchase source for the coin including proof price?
     
  6. hontonai

    hontonai Registered Contrarian

  7. midas1

    midas1 Exalted Member

    Thanks, will do.
     
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