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2 1/2 Dollars - Roy I Orca
| Issuer | Sealand |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of the Principality of Sealand occupies the central field, featuring a divided shield supported on the dexter by a crowned sea-lion and on the sinister by a crowned sea-horse, both rendered in high relief. Above the shield rises a plumed helm with mantling. A ribbon below the shield bears the motto E MARE LIBERTAS. Two scallop shells flank the composition in the lower field. The peripheral legend reads PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND at the top and SEALAND 2 1/2 DOLLARS at the bottom, with the date 1994 in the lower central field beneath the arms. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Sealand — the former Royal Navy sea fort Roughs Tower, occupied since 1967 by Paddy Roy Bates and self-declared a sovereign principality — issued a series of large-format silver rounds throughout the 1990s that occupy an awkward position between novelty bullion and micronation propaganda. They were never legal tender in any recognized jurisdiction, and the "principality" has no permanent population, no land territory, and no internationally recognized monetary authority. Collectors acquire them as curiosities of political eccentricity rather than as numismatic material in the conventional sense.
X#11a places this piece in Krause's catalog of unofficial and phantom issues — the designation itself a tacit acknowledgment that it belongs nowhere else.