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1 Cent
| Issuer | Kingdom of Redonda |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Redonda is an uninhabited volcanic rock in the Caribbean, roughly one square kilometer, claimed as a kingdom by a succession of self-appointed monarchs tracing back to a 19th-century literary joke. The "Kingdom of Redonda" is a fiction maintained by a rotating cast of British writers and eccentrics — M.P. Shiel, John Gawsworth, and Jon Wynne-Tyson among them — who awarded noble titles to literary friends as a kind of elaborate in-joke. This coin has no circulating economy behind it, no subjects to spend it, and no treasury to issue it from.
The X# prefix in the Standard Catalog places it squarely in the "Unusual World Coins" category — fantasy and private issues.