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.
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.