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| Issuer | Sealand |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Reference(s) | X#3.2 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | PRINCESS JOAN I |
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| Additional information |
Sealand — the former Royal Navy Maunsell sea fort HM Fort Roughs, seized by Paddy Roy Bates in 1967 — declared itself a sovereign principality and began issuing coins in the 1970s largely as a revenue exercise. The "Princess Joan I Jubilee" issue commemorates Bates's wife Joan, whose claim to the title rested entirely on her husband's self-declared sovereignty over a rusting platform seven miles off the Suffolk coast. The X# prefix in the reference confirms its status as a non-circulating fantasy piece, cataloged by Krause under their Unusual World Coins classification rather than as recognized currency.