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1/2 Dobbeltdisse

Issuer Kingdom of Elleore
Year 1973
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Obverse lettering KONGERIGET ELLEORE ½ ½ 0702 1973 ½ 0,5 ½ (HALV) DOBBELTDISSE
(Translation: The Kingdom of Elleore (Half) Dobbeltdisse)
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Reverse lettering DOBBELT DOBBELT HALV ½ DISSE DISSE ELLEORE ELLEORE HV
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Elleore is a small island in Roskilde Fjord, Denmark, occupied since 1944 by a group of Copenhagen schoolteachers who declared it a sovereign micro-nation. The Kingdom issues currency, postage stamps, and legislation — all with genuine internal consistency and a dry Scandinavian wit. The Dobbeltdisse, whose name translates roughly as "double tit," is the standard monetary unit, divided into a system with deliberately absurd denominational logic.

These notes have no monetary function outside the island's annual summer gatherings. Collectibility is driven entirely by scarcity: print runs were small, distribution was restricted to kingdom members and guests, and few were preserved with any care.