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100 Dollars Rebel Issue
| Issuer | Sealand |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Diameter | 38.6 mm |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing truncated bust of Johannes Seiger, Prime Minister of Sealand, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The portrait is unadorned and dressed in a suit jacket, depicted in a classical medallic style. The legend PRIME MINISTER OF SEALAND arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded border, while JOHANNES SEIGER is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sealand — a former Royal Navy anti-aircraft platform seven miles off the Suffolk coast — was seized by Paddy Roy Bates in 1967 and unilaterally declared an independent principality. The British government's legal position, confirmed in a 1968 court ruling, was that the structure lay outside UK territorial waters and thus outside UK jurisdiction. Bates exploited that gap relentlessly.
The X# prefix places this issue firmly outside mainstream numismatic recognition — cataloged by Krause as a "fantasy" or non-governmental strike. Sealand's monetary output was never backed by any reserve, never circulated, and existed primarily as a revenue stream through novelty sales.