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5 Cents Passamaquoddy tribes
| Issuer | Jamul Indian Village (Native American tribes) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a detailed engraving of a maple leaf intended to represent the traditional Mahgan (sugar maple, Acer saccharum), though the depicted leaf morphology — with its shallower sinuses and rounded lobes — corresponds more closely to the red maple (Acer rubrum). The leaf is rendered with prominent veining in high relief against a plain field. The upper legend reads 'PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBES' and the date '2021', while the lower legend reads 'FIVE CENTS', all in raised Latin capital letters. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Jamul Indian Village is a federally recognized Kumeyaay band located in San Diego County — which makes the attribution here immediately puzzling. The Passamaquoddy are a distinct Algonquian people of coastal Maine and New Brunswick, with no historical or political connection to the Jamul. This kind of cross-tribal branding is a known feature of the private "tribal token" market, where issuers exploit federal recognition status to produce novelty coinage that trades on Native American imagery without meaningful tribal involvement in the design or purpose.