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1/2 Dobbeltdisse
| Issuer | Kingdom of Elleore |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Dobbeltdisse (1945-date) |
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| Obverse description | Purple and pink letterpress print on white paper. The issuer name is inscribed across the top, with the denomination stated in the lower margin and in each corner. At the centre, the conjoined coat of arms of the reigning couple is surmounted by crowns, flanked to each side by portrait vignettes presumed to represent the King and Queen. The serial number appears at the lower left and the year at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | DOBBELT DOBBELT HALV ½ DISSE DISSE ELLEORE ELLEORE HV |
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Elleore is a small island in Roskilde Fjord, Denmark, occupied since 1944 by a group of Copenhagen schoolteachers who declared it a sovereign micro-nation. The Kingdom issues currency, postage stamps, and legislation — all with genuine internal consistency and a dry Scandinavian wit. The Dobbeltdisse, whose name translates roughly as "double tit," is the standard monetary unit, divided into a system with deliberately absurd denominational logic.
These notes have no monetary function outside the island's annual summer gatherings. Collectibility is driven entirely by scarcity: print runs were small, distribution was restricted to kingdom members and guests, and few were preserved with any care.