Easter Island has no monetary authority of its own — Chile's peso is the legal tender there, full stop. These "X" catalog pieces are local novelty issues with no official standing, produced for the tourist trade and collector market rather than any administrative purpose. The X# prefix in Krause's Unusual World Coins is the tell: it signals the editors considered it outside the mainstream catalog entirely.
Easter Island has no monetary authority of its own — Chile's peso is the legal tender there, full stop. These "X" catalog pieces are local novelty issues with no official standing, produced for the tourist trade and collector market rather than any administrative purpose. The X# prefix in Krause's Unusual World Coins is the tell: it signals the editors considered it outside the mainstream catalog entirely.