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1 Liberty Dollar Counterstamp on Mexico 5 Pesos, 1951-54
| Issuer | Anguilla Provisional Government |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Currency | Provisional Government Counterstamped Coinage (1967) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of the host coin (Mexican 5 Pesos, KM#467) bears the draped bust of Miguel Hidalgo facing left, with the legend HIDALGO inscribed above the effigy. Over this design, a large rectangular counterstamp applied by the Anguilla Provisional Government dominates the field, bearing the legends ANGUILLA and LIBERTY DOLLAR arranged around the periphery within a wreath border, with the commemorative date JULY 11 1967 struck prominently across the center of the effigy. |
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| Obverse lettering | HIDALGO ANGUILLA LIBERTY DOLLAR JULY 11 1967 |
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In 1967, Anguilla expelled the Saint Kitts police force and unilaterally broke from the Associated State of Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla — a secession the British government initially refused to recognize. With no functioning revenue and an urgent need to assert independent authority, the provisional government improvised its currency by counterstamping existing Mexican 5 Peso coins still in circulation across the Caribbean. The choice was pragmatic: the Pesos were silver, widely accepted, and already present on the island.
X#1 designates this as the first listing in Krause's unusual world coins volume — fitting for one of the more makeshift monetary instruments of twentieth-century independence movements.