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1 Fed
| Issuer | Freetown Christiania |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a female figure wearing roller skates and holding a cannabis joint aloft, riding upon a stylised dragon in dynamic motion. A large cannabis leaf occupies the upper portion of the field as a decorative device. The denomination 1 FED appears at the top of the field, with the engraver's name SORENTO and the date 2018 inscribed below the central motif in two lines. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 FED Sorento 2018 |
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Christiania has used its own internal exchange tokens since the 1970s, but the "Fed" series issued from the mid-2010s onward represents a more deliberate numismatic product aimed at collectors rather than internal barter. The community — occupying a former Danish military barracks in Copenhagen since 1971 — has operated in a legally ambiguous status for most of its existence, with the Danish government making several attempts to normalize or dissolve it, most recently resolved through a 2011 property purchase agreement that gave residents formal tenure.
X#62 places this squarely in the Unusual World Coins classification for non-governmental issues.