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1/4 Rupee
| Emittent | Clunies-Ross Estate (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) |
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| Jahr | 1879 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Plain paper note of primitive, utilitarian design, with the issuer name COCOS. typeset at the top centre and the denomination fc. 1/4. repeated in manuscript at the upper left and lower right. The central text block, set within a dashed rectangular border, reads Exchange for the Sum of one quarter Rupee Copper in letterpress. Handwritten annotations, including a date (26/6/79) and what appears to be an authorising signature, are inscribed across the note in brown ink. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Reverse is blank, with aged, cream-toned paper exhibiting surface wear and toning consistent with extended circulation. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Clunies-Ross family ruled the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as a private fiefdom for well over a century, and their scrip currency was the instrument that kept it that way. Workers — almost entirely Cocos Malay laborers brought to tend the copra plantation — were paid in these tokens and notes, redeemable only at the family's own store. The system made leaving economically impossible: wages earned in Clunies-Ross currency had no value anywhere else on earth.
This 1879 quarter-rupee is among the earliest documented paper issues from the estate. Printed on the islands themselves, the production was entirely in-house — no commercial printer, no government authority. The Australian government finally abolished the currency in 1978, nearly a century after this note was issued.