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4000 Mills Rose island

Issuer Italy
Year 2024
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Obverse description Coat of arms
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Reverse script Latin
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Rose Island — the self-declared micro-nation built on a platform in the Adriatic by Italian engineer Giorgio Rosa in 1968 — lasted roughly ten months before the Italian government sent the navy to demolish it. Rome had refused to recognize its sovereignty, partly fearing it would become a tax haven, and partly because the whole episode was an embarrassment. The story remained obscure for decades until a 2020 Netflix film brought it back into public consciousness, which almost certainly explains why this issue exists at all.

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