The Isle of Wight has no authority to issue legal tender coinage — this is a local trade token, one of dozens produced across British seaside towns and tourist attractions during the 1990s as novelty souvenirs rather than circulating currency. Dinosaur Land is a small fossil and replica attraction in Sandown, trading on the island's genuine paleontological significance: the Isle of Wight has produced more dinosaur species than anywhere else in the UK, including significant finds of Neovenator salerii first described in 1996.
The Isle of Wight has no authority to issue legal tender coinage — this is a local trade token, one of dozens produced across British seaside towns and tourist attractions during the 1990s as novelty souvenirs rather than circulating currency. Dinosaur Land is a small fossil and replica attraction in Sandown, trading on the island's genuine paleontological significance: the Isle of Wight has produced more dinosaur species than anywhere else in the UK, including significant finds of Neovenator salerii first described in 1996.