Catalog
1 Dollar - Roy I Orca
| Issuer | Sealand |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large, highly stylised relief depiction of an orca (killer whale) leaping diagonally across the field, rendered with smooth, bold contours against a mirrored proof background. A horizontal line bisects the field, suggesting the ocean surface. The word O•R•C•A appears in large spaced letters across the lower portion of the field, with each letter separated by a raised dot. The curved legend TREASURES OF THE SEA arcs along the upper periphery in raised capital letters. |
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Sealand — the self-declared micronation occupying a decommissioned Royal Navy Maunsell sea fort off the Suffolk coast — has issued commemorative coinage since the 1970s, though none of it carries recognition from any sovereign monetary authority. These pieces circulate entirely within the collector market; Sealand has no functioning economy to speak of. The X# prefix in the standard reference confirms its classification as a "unofficial" or fantasy issue under Krause's World Coin catalog system.
Roy Bates, who claimed the fort in 1967 and styled himself Prince Roy I, died in 2012. The orca subject likely ties to conservation-themed commemorative programs that were commercially popular among micronation issuers throughout the 1990s.