Antarctica has no government, no treasury, and no population — the "issuer" here is a legal fiction, typically a private licensing arrangement with a Pacific or Caribbean jurisdiction using the Antarctic name for novelty value. These trimetallic issues were produced in bulk for the collector market around the time of John Paul II's 2011 beatification, a ceremony attended by an estimated 1.5 million people in Rome.
Antarctica has no government, no treasury, and no population — the "issuer" here is a legal fiction, typically a private licensing arrangement with a Pacific or Caribbean jurisdiction using the Antarctic name for novelty value. These trimetallic issues were produced in bulk for the collector market around the time of John Paul II's 2011 beatification, a ceremony attended by an estimated 1.5 million people in Rome.