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5 Dollars Methodist Church, Obverse Trial
| Issuer | Government of Anguilla |
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| Year | 1969-1970 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially uniface, presenting a plain, unadorned field with no central design or peripheral legend. A small incuse rectangular cartouche bearing the abbreviation MET. is punched at the lower portion of the field, serving as a trial identification mark. The overall surface shows the characteristics of an unfinished trial piece, consistent with its status as an obverse die trial. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Anguilla's brief experiment with self-issued coinage followed the 1967 rebellion against the associated state of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, when islanders forcibly expelled the St. Kitts police and declared their own administration. The trial pieces of 1969–1970 were produced as Anguilla sought international recognition and a functional monetary identity during a period when it had no legal standing to issue currency at all — a remarkable act of numismatic defiance for an island of fewer than 6,000 people.
The TS3 designation confirms this as a pattern trial, never approved for circulation.