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25 Cents - Roy I Orca
| Issuer | Sealand |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1972-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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| Additional information |
Sealand — the former Royal Navy anti-aircraft platform Roughs Tower, seized by Paddy Roy Bates in 1967 and declared a sovereign principality — has issued coins intermittently since the 1970s, none of which have ever functioned as genuine circulating currency. This piece dates to the early 1990s, when a wave of such "fantasy" issues flooded the novelty and bullion markets. The X# prefix in the catalog reference confirms its non-circulating status outright.
Roy Bates died in 2012; his son Michael has administered the platform since.