目录
查看完整图片 — 免费注册
使用Google继续 — 免费
或用邮箱注册
为什么需要注册？只是为了防止机器人访问我们的目录。您的邮箱完全保密——我们绝不会分享或在未经您许可的情况下发送任何内容。我们向您保证！
| 正面描述 | Central shield displaying the Clunies Ross family coat of arms, flanked by two palm trees and surmounted by a bird crest, all within a circular legend. The inscription 'KEELING COCOS ISLANDS' runs around the upper periphery, with the date '1910' appearing in the lower field, flanked by two raised dots. The design is impressed into the square ivorine token, giving a cameo-like relief effect characteristic of molded plastic issues. |
|---|---|
| 正面文字 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 正面铭文 | KEELING COCOS ISLANDS •1910• |
| 背面描述 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 背面文字 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 背面铭文 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 边缘 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 铸币厂 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 铸造量 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 附加信息 |
The Clunies Ross family operated the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as a private fiefdom for over a century, importing indentured Malay laborers to work their coconut plantations and paying them in a scrip currency redeemable only at the family's own store. This arrangement kept the workforce in a state of permanent economic dependency — there was nowhere else to spend it and no mechanism to convert it to sterling. The ivorine tokens, introduced in the early twentieth century, replaced an earlier bone series and were deliberately impractical outside the islands.
Australian authorities finally abolished the system in 1978, nearly seven decades after this token was struck.