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1 Dollar - Cocos Keeling Islands Fantasy Issue
| Issuer | Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands operated a genuine local currency — the plastic token coinage issued under the Clunies-Ross family, who governed the atoll as a private fiefdom until the Australian government effectively ended that arrangement in 1978. Those original tokens are legitimate issues. This 2004 brass piece, catalogued under Krause's "X" prefix for non-circulating fantasy strikes, has no connection to that currency system and was never sanctioned for local use. The X# designation is the catalog's polite way of flagging pieces produced outside any recognized issuing authority.