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20 Cents - Cocos Keeling Islands Fantasy Issue
| Issuer | Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Reverse description | Central device features a highly detailed engraving of a lionfish (Pterois) facing right, its characteristic elongated venomous dorsal spines and pectoral fins radiating prominently across the field. The numeral 20 appears in large format to the lower left of the fish, with CENTS inscribed along the lower periphery. The species name LION FISH is inscribed to the upper left of the field. The date 2004 appears to the lower right, accompanied by the engraver's initials LR. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lion Fish 20 CENTS 2004 LR |
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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands briefly operated its own plastic token coinage from 1977 to 1979 under the Clunies-Ross family, who had governed the atoll as a personal fiefdom since the nineteenth century. After Australia formally annexed the islands and abolished the token currency, a series of fantasy issues — carrying no official authorization from the Australian government — began appearing attributed to the territory. The X# prefix in Krause's catalog designates exactly this status: non-monetary, privately produced pieces with no issuing authority behind them.