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Token - Gardiner's Island Pattern Trial Proof
| Issuer | Gardiners Island |
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| Year | 1965 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Reverse description | The armorial bearings of the Gardiner family displayed in high relief at centre, comprising a quartered shield with diagonal cross and lozenge devices, supported on either side by elaborate acanthus-scroll mantling issuing from a helm, surmounted by a crest of an eagle displayed. A ribbon scroll below the shield bears the motto DEO NON FORTUNA. The circular legend PATTERN TRIAL PROOF ON FRANKLINIUM I arcs around the upper and lateral periphery, with the mintmark FM in the lower field. The entire device is contained within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Gardiner's Island — a roughly 3,300-acre private island at the eastern tip of Long Island — has been continuously owned by the Gardiner family since 1639, making it one of the oldest private land grants in North America still held by the original family. In 1965, a pattern trial proof in sterling was struck, almost certainly connected to the island's long-running identity as a kind of private domain operating outside conventional civic structures. No U.S. territory it is not; the island exists in a peculiar legal limbo that has historically encouraged such private issue experiments.
Documented mintage for this piece is effectively unknown, and authentication hinges heavily on provenance chain.