1 Lepton

The Ionian Islands operated as a British protectorate under the nominal sovereignty of a local senate, a constitutional fiction that satisfied neither the islanders nor the Greeks on the mainland. The lepton series issued under this arrangement was struck at the Royal Mint in London — an unremarkable administrative decision that nonetheless left these coins with a consistency of quality unusual for the region and period.

Greek unification absorbed the islands in 1864, rendering the entire series obsolete almost overnight. Circulated survivors are common; the long date range reflects restriking rather than continuous new issue.