Catalog
1/2 Dobbeltdisse
| Issuer | Kingdom of Elleore |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Dobbeltdisse (1945-date) |
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| Reverse description | Purple and pink letterpress print on white paper. A large central vignette depicts a sailing vessel at sea, surrounded by fantastical sea creatures. The denomination is stated in panels to each side, and the name of the island appears along the lower margin. |
| 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.