5 Dollars Methodist Church, Obverse Trial

Anguilla's brief experiment with self-issued coinage followed the 1967 rebellion against the associated state of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, when islanders forcibly expelled the St. Kitts police and declared their own administration. The trial pieces of 1969–1970 were produced as Anguilla sought international recognition and a functional monetary identity during a period when it had no legal standing to issue currency at all — a remarkable act of numismatic defiance for an island of fewer than 6,000 people.

The TS3 designation confirms this as a pattern trial, never approved for circulation.