1.5 Euro Javan rhinoceros

Reverse

On the outside part of the the reverse (common to all the coins), floral designs and animal tracks.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ANIMALES EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCIÓN
1,5 EURO
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Translation: Endangered Animals

Edge

Plain

Comment

It is one of five species of rhinoceros. Slightly smaller than its continental cousin, the Indian rhinoceros, this rhinoceros from the Asian island of Java has less developed dermal plates, and of all the rhinoceroses, it is the one with the least developed horn, which sometimes does not appear in females, or if it does appear, it is in the form of a small protuberance.
Strictly herbivorous, Javan rhinos weigh between 1 and 2 tons, and their length is usually around 3 metres, with a height of 1.5 metres. Like all other rhino species, they have poor eyesight, which they make up for with good hearing and an excellent sense of smell. There are hardly any differences in appearance between males and females. In the absence of captive specimens, little is known about their social, reproductive and behavioural aspects.
Originally there were also populations of these rhinos throughout Southeast Asia, in India and southern China, but they have long been extinct, and the estimated 60 rhinos in the wild live in the Ujung Kulon National Park, a tropical forest area near the Krakatoa volcano, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Their risk of extinction is therefore extremely high.
The absurd belief about the aphrodisiac and medicinal powers of its small horn stimulated its poaching in the past, which together with the disappearance of its habitat by humans, caused a drastic reduction in the number of individuals for decades, making it currently one of the rarest large animals on Earth, a fact that also entails a very poor genetic diversity, and the possibility that any disease could definitively kill this "little giant".

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
2022 M	5000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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