Catalog
50 Para - George III
| Issuer | Ionian Islands, United States of the (1815-1864) |
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| Year | 1814 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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The Ionian Islands came under British protection in 1815 following the Treaty of Paris, but this piece was struck a year earlier — an administrative anticipation of the protectorate that had not yet formally existed. The United States of the Ionian Islands was a nominally autonomous republic under British supervision, and its coinage reflected that ambiguity: struck in the name of a British monarch yet issued for a theoretically self-governing state.
The Pr#6 reference places this within Pridmore's catalog of British colonial issues, which noted significant variation among the early Ionian strikings. KM#22.1 distinguishes this from related die marriages within the type.