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25 Para - George III
| Issuer | Ionian Islands, United States of the (1815-1864) |
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| Year | 1814 |
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| Technique | Countermark |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1814: ND (1814) |
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The Ionian Islands came under British protection in 1815 following the Treaty of Paris, but this piece was struck in 1814 — ahead of the formal establishment of the United States of the Ionian Islands — during the transitional military administration that followed French withdrawal. Britain administered the islands as a protectorate, not a colony, a distinction the Foreign Office was careful to maintain, and the coinage reflects that awkward constitutional status: a British monarch's name on currency for a nominally self-governing Greek-speaking republic.
KM#18 is among the scarcer denominations of the series. The oboli and lepta circulated heavily; the 25 para considerably less so.