1 Liberty Dollar Counterstamp on China 1 Yuan, 1914-21

Anguilla's 1967 breakaway from the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla federation left the island's provisional government without recognized currency and, more pressingly, without the infrastructure to mint its own. The counterstamp solution — applied to surplus Chinese Republican-era Yuan pieces — was improvised and intentionally temporary, a stopgap while Anguilla pressed Britain for political recognition following the May revolt led by Ronald Webster.

The underlying host coins date from the warlord and early Nationalist periods, 1914–1921, struck at various Chinese mints to varying standards. Not all surviving examples were counterstamped with equal pressure or die alignment.