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| Issuer | Montserrat (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ESSAI - PATTERN - PROBE 2007 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Montserrat's currency history was effectively ended by the 1995 eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano, which buried Plymouth — the capital and commercial center — under meters of pyroclastic debris and rendered the southern two-thirds of the island an exclusion zone. The Eastern Caribbean dollar has served as the island's circulating currency through ECCB membership, meaning a domestic Montserratian coinage series never materialized. This 2007 pattern, denominated in the never-adopted "Xeros Ceros," belongs to a speculative local currency proposal that went nowhere.
Pattern pieces like this were almost certainly produced in tiny quantities for presentation or collector purposes only.