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100 Pounds Mediterranean Campaign of Ushakov
| Issuer | Suwarrow Atoll |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse lettering | SUWARROW ATOLL 2018 100 POUNDS АТОЛЛ СУВОРОВА |
| Reverse description | Portrait bust of Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov facing slightly right, rendered in high relief against a plain field. A scene of the Siege of Corfu Fortress is depicted in the lower portion of the reverse, illustrating the naval assault of 20 February (3 March) 1799. Multiple Cyrillic legends surround and identify the subject, referencing the Mediterranean Campaign of Ushakov (1798–1800), the admiral's name, the storming of Corfu Fortress, and the date of the engagement. |
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Suwarrow Atoll, an uninhabited Cook Islands dependency in the Pacific, has no economy, no permanent population, and no monetary infrastructure — which makes it a recurring issuer of numismatic fantasy pieces aimed squarely at the collector market. This coin honors Fyodor Ushakov's 1798–1800 Mediterranean campaign, during which the Russian admiral seized the Ionian Islands from French control and notably captured the fortified island of Corfu through a combined Russian-Ottoman naval operation.
Ushakov was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2001 — an unusual honor for a military commander.