Redonda is an uninhabited volcanic rock in the Leeward Islands, roughly 1.6 square kilometres, with no permanent population and no government capable of issuing currency. Its claimed "kingdom" derives from an 1865 eccentric declaration by Matthew Dowdy Shiell, whose son M.P. Shiel became a noted science fiction author and passed the title through a chain of literary figures. Coins attributed to Redonda are fantasy pieces — struck for the collector market with no monetary authority behind them whatsoever.
Redonda is an uninhabited volcanic rock in the Leeward Islands, roughly 1.6 square kilometres, with no permanent population and no government capable of issuing currency. Its claimed "kingdom" derives from an 1865 eccentric declaration by Matthew Dowdy Shiell, whose son M.P. Shiel became a noted science fiction author and passed the title through a chain of literary figures. Coins attributed to Redonda are fantasy pieces — struck for the collector market with no monetary authority behind them whatsoever.