Jamul Indian Village, a Kumeyaay band located in San Diego County, is among the smallest federally recognized tribes in the United States — at times numbering fewer than a dozen enrolled members. Tribal nations gained broader authority to issue their own coinage following shifts in federal recognition policy through the 1990s and 2000s, though these pieces occupy an ambiguous legal space and do not circulate as general tender.
The Ojibwa attribution on a Kumeyaay-issued token is the kind of disconnect that appears across this market, where private minting contractors frequently supplied generic "tribal" designs across multiple issuers regardless of cultural connection.
Jamul Indian Village, a Kumeyaay band located in San Diego County, is among the smallest federally recognized tribes in the United States — at times numbering fewer than a dozen enrolled members. Tribal nations gained broader authority to issue their own coinage following shifts in federal recognition policy through the 1990s and 2000s, though these pieces occupy an ambiguous legal space and do not circulate as general tender.
The Ojibwa attribution on a Kumeyaay-issued token is the kind of disconnect that appears across this market, where private minting contractors frequently supplied generic "tribal" designs across multiple issuers regardless of cultural connection.