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| 表面の銘文 | COCOS. Exchange for the Sum of one quarter Rupee Copper. fc. 1/4. |
| 裏面の説明 | Reverse is blank, with aged, cream-toned paper exhibiting surface wear and toning consistent with extended circulation. |
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| 偽造防止技術 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
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The Clunies-Ross family ruled the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as a private fiefdom for well over a century, and their scrip currency was the instrument that kept it that way. Workers — almost entirely Cocos Malay laborers brought to tend the copra plantation — were paid in these tokens and notes, redeemable only at the family's own store. The system made leaving economically impossible: wages earned in Clunies-Ross currency had no value anywhere else on earth.
This 1879 quarter-rupee is among the earliest documented paper issues from the estate. Printed on the islands themselves, the production was entirely in-house — no commercial printer, no government authority. The Australian government finally abolished the currency in 1978, nearly a century after this note was issued.