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100 Pounds Battle of Navarino
| Issuer | Suwarrow Atoll |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicting a naval battle scene commemorating the Battle of Navarino of 1827, with associated inscriptions in Cyrillic identifying the engagement and the Russian commander Count L.P. Heiden. The legend 'НАВАРИНСКАЯ КАМПАНИЯ 1827 г.' arcs across the upper field, with 'Л.П. ГЕЙДЕН' and 'НАВАРИНСКОЕ СРАЖЕНИЕ' in the central field, and the date '3 (20) ОКТЯБРЯ 1827 ГОДА' in the lower field. Note: the reverse lettering contains a typographic error — 'ОТЯБРЯ' should read 'ОКТЯБРЯ'. |
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Suwarrow Atoll is an uninhabited Cook Islands territory in the northern Pacific, administered as a national park with no permanent population — making it one of the more geographically absurd issuing authorities in modern numismatics. These coins are legal tender in name only, produced entirely for the collector market by licensing arrangements common to small Pacific jurisdictions.
The Battle of Navarino, fought in October 1827, was the last major engagement decided entirely by sailing warships, and the decisive Allied destruction of the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet effectively guaranteed Greek independence.