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20 Dollars Mermaids, Obverse Trial
| Issuer | Government of Anguilla |
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| Year | 1969-1970 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, presenting a plain, unadorned field characteristic of an obverse trial striking intended solely to test the obverse die. A small rectangular incuse maker's mark reading MET. is impressed at the lower rim, serving as the only device on this otherwise featureless surface. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Anguilla's 1969–1970 coinage emerged from one of the more unusual episodes in Caribbean political history: the island's unilateral secession from the associated state of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, declared in 1967 after Anguillans expelled the St. Kitts police force and held their own independence referendum. Britain, reluctant to recognize the breakaway, nonetheless negotiated an uneasy arrangement — and the issuance of local coinage was part of Anguilla's effort to assert administrative independence. This obverse trial represents the experimental phase of that project, a monetary gesture from a microstate that technically did not yet exist in any recognized form.