Åland's notgeld-style local coinage of the early 1990s was issued under the authority of the provincial government as a form of regional identity assertion, not as legal tender in any strict monetary sense. The archipelago, granted autonomous status under a 1921 League of Nations ruling that also guaranteed its demilitarization, has used such issues to underscore its distinct cultural position between Finland and Sweden.
The X# prefix in Krause places this squarely in the "unofficial" category — struck for local circulation and collector purposes rather than national monetary integration. The 2.1 variety designation indicates at least one catalogued die or compositional variant exists within the type.
Åland's notgeld-style local coinage of the early 1990s was issued under the authority of the provincial government as a form of regional identity assertion, not as legal tender in any strict monetary sense. The archipelago, granted autonomous status under a 1921 League of Nations ruling that also guaranteed its demilitarization, has used such issues to underscore its distinct cultural position between Finland and Sweden.
The X# prefix in Krause places this squarely in the "unofficial" category — struck for local circulation and collector purposes rather than national monetary integration. The 2.1 variety designation indicates at least one catalogued die or compositional variant exists within the type.