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5 Cents
| Issuer | Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1878-1984) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5c |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands plastic coinage of 1968 was issued under the authority of John Clunies-Ross, whose family had governed the atoll as a private fiefdom since the 1820s. The tokens functioned as a closed-currency system on the plantation, paid to Cocos Malay workers and redeemable only at the family-controlled store — a monetary arrangement that effectively trapped labor on the island and was later cited by the Australian government as a form of economic coercion when it moved to formally annex the territory in 1978.