1 Xeros Pattern

Montserrat's 1995 volcanic eruption buried the southern half of the island under pyroclastic flows, displaced roughly two-thirds of the population, and rendered the capital Plymouth permanently uninhabitable. By 2007, when this pattern was struck, the island's population had still not recovered to pre-eruption levels. The xero was a proposed decimal currency that never entered circulation — this piece exists as a trial strike only, part of a broader post-disaster discussion about economic reconstruction and administrative identity for a territory that had, in practical terms, been half-destroyed.