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1 Rupee
| Issuer | Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS Bukan Wang Tunai |
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| Reverse lettering | Yellow-bellied sea snake 2023 1 RUPEE |
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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands used their own plastic rupee tokens — not coins — as a closed currency system from 1977 until 1978, when Australian dollar coinage replaced them entirely. This 2023 issue revives the rupee denomination purely as a collector piece, referencing a monetary experiment that lasted barely a year in practice and was itself a late echo of the plantation scrip system the Clunies-Ross family had used to control the island economy since the nineteenth century.