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1 oz Copper Lakota Tribe

Issuer Free Lakota Bank
Year 2010
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Reference(s) X#1
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Edge Reeded
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The Free Lakota Bank, established by the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, explicitly rejected the Federal Reserve system and issued these rounds as part of a broader assertion of economic autonomy under treaty rights. The X#1 reference places it in Krause's catalog of non-standard monetary issues — a category that itself signals contested legitimacy.

Whether it ever functioned as a genuine medium of exchange within the reservation economy is unclear from surviving documentation.

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