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3 Dollars Antarctica, Queen Maud Land
| Issuer | Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office Ltd |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 3 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | Cartographic vignettes of Antarctica, Norway, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard superimposed over the flag of the Kingdom of Norway as an underprint. Historical text in Norwegian and English records Norway's 1938 territorial claim over Dronning Maud Land, with redemption instructions in Norwegian below. |
| Reverse lettering | TRE DOLLAR January 14, 1938 Dronning Maud Land (Queen Maud Land) in Antarctica (14°E to 20°E) formally claimed as a Norwegian possession. The Kingdom of Norway Arctic island territory of Svalbard ANTARKTIS 3 DENNE SEDDEL KAN INNLØSES FOR TILSVARENDE VERDI 3 US DOLLAR NÅR SEDDELEN SENDES TIL ANTARCTICA OVERSEAS EXCHANGE OFFICE LTD., P. O. BOX 61, CUSTER, WA 98240, INNEN 31, DESEMBER 2012. [email protected] |
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The Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office Ltd. is a private novelty issuer, not a monetary authority — this note has no legal tender status anywhere and was produced as a collectible from the outset. "Queen Maud Land" is the Norwegian Antarctic territorial claim, which has no civilian population and no currency infrastructure of any kind. The issuer's invocation of it is purely decorative geography.
Printed by Visual Graphic Systems in Custer, Washington, one of the few small facilities in the United States with polymer substrate capability at the time.