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1 Dollar Thurston Island
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Westarctica |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | THURSTON ISLAND Humpback Whale $ 1 WESTARCTICA TERRITORIES |
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Westarctica is a micronation claiming sovereignty over a portion of Marie Byrd Land, the largest unclaimed territory on Earth — unclaimed because the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 effectively froze all territorial assertions on the continent. Travis McHenry founded the Grand Duchy in 2001 after identifying a legal gap in the treaty's coverage of that specific region. The X# reference prefix places this squarely in the Unusual World Coins catalog, the standard repository for fantasy and local issues with no legal tender status in any recognized jurisdiction.