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1 Pound Abyssin
| Issuer | Isle of Stroma |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Pound |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a full-body portrait of an Abyssinian cat standing in profile, facing left with its tail raised, rendered in fine relief with naturalistic detail. The breed name 'Abyssin' is inscribed in the upper field above the feline figure, and the date '2016' appears in the lower exergue. |
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Stroma is a genuinely uninhabited island off the northern tip of Caithness — the last permanent resident left in 1962 — which makes its periodic appearance as a coin-issuing "authority" a purely commercial fiction with no administrative basis whatsoever. The "Abyssin" denomination exists nowhere in any monetary history; it was coined, literally, for this purpose.