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2 Dollars National flag, Obverse Trial
| Issuer | Government of Anguilla |
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| Year | 1969-1970 |
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| Diameter | 30 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts the Anguillian national flag flying from a staff, bearing the three interlocked dolphins emblem on its canton, set against a stylised seascape rendered with horizontal engraved lines. In the lower right portion of the field, a detailed cartographic relief of the island of Anguilla is shown surrounded by waves, with the capital The Valley identified by legend. A pair of crossed palm fronds appears at the base of the design, and the entire central motif is enclosed within a beaded inner border. The circumferential legend GOVERNMENT OF ANGUILLA runs clockwise along the upper periphery in raised Latin capitals. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Anguilla's 1969 rebellion against the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla federation produced one of the more unusual monetary episodes in Caribbean history. After expelling St. Kitts police and declaring independence, the island's provisional government issued its own coinage to assert administrative legitimacy — these trial pieces were part of that effort, produced before designs were finalized. The rebellion was never formally recognized by Britain, and Anguilla's independent coinage never achieved legal tender status in any conventional sense.
The silver-plated brass composition marks this unambiguously as a pattern or trial strike rather than a circulation issue.