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Lundy

(1925-1969)

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1929
USNS-LUN-C 001.a Year: 1929 Metal: Bronze Condition: UNC Mint: Heaton’s Mintage: 50,000 Diameter: 22.5 mm. Denomination: Half Puffin Edge: inscribed LUNDY LIGHTS AND LEADS
USNS-LUN-C 001.b Pattern –large planchet, thick flan Year: 1929 Metal: Bronze Condition: UNC Mint: Heaton’s Mintage: RARE Diameter: ca. 23.5 mm. Denomination: Half Puffin Edge: plain
USNS-LUN-C 002.a Year: 1929 Metal: Bronze Condition: UNC Mint: Heaton’s Mintage: 50,000 Diameter: 29 mm. Denomination: One Puffin Edge: inscribed LUNDY LIGHTS AND LEADS
USNS-LUN-C 002.b Pattern –large planchet, thick flan Year: 1929 Metal: Bronze Condition: UNC Mint: Heaton’s Mintage: RARE Diameter: ca. 30 mm. Denomination: One Puffin Edge: plain

1965
USNS-LUN-C 003.a Year: 1965 Metal: Bronze Condition: UNC Mint: John Pinches Mintage: 3,000 (in sets only) Diameter: 22.5 mm. Denomination: Half Puffin Edge: plain
USNS-LUN-C 003.b Year: 1965 Metal: Brass Condition: UNC Mint: John Pinches Mintage: 3,000 (in sets only) Diameter: 22.5 mm. Denomination: Half Puffin Edge: plain
USNS-LUN-C 003.c Year: 1965 Metal: Gold Condition: UNC Mint: John Pinches Mintage: 50 pcs. (25 in sets with 004c) Diameter: 22.5 mm. Denomination: Half Puffin Edge: plain
USNS-LUN-C 004.a Year: 1965 Metal: Bronze Condition: UNC Mint: John Pinches Mintage: 3,000 (in sets only) Diameter: 29 mm. Denomination: One Puffin Edge: plain
USNS-LUN-C 004.b Year: 1965 Metal: Brass Condition: UNC Mint: John Pinches Mintage: 3,000 pcs. (in sets only) Diameter: 29 mm. Denomination: One Puffin Edge: plain
USNS-LUN-C 004.c Year: 1965 Metal: Gold Condition: UNC Mint: John Pinches Mintage: 50 pcs. (25 in sets with 003c) Diameter: 29 mm. Denomination: One Puffin Edge: plain

LUNDY: In 1925 the island of Lundy was purchased by Martin Coles Harman, a wealthy English businessman from Sussex. After the purchase, Mr. Harman declared himself sovereign King of Lundy and the island as a self-governing dominion within the British Empire. In 1929 two coins were issued for use on the island, both bearing the likeness of the self-declared king on the obverse and the local Puffin bird on the reverse. The currency saw some limited use on the island, before the British authorities got wind of them in 1930 and declared them to be illegal currency in defiance of the coin act of 1870.

In 1965, to commemorate the 40^th anniversary of the purchase of the island, 3000 sets of commemorative collector-only puffin sets in bronze and brass were issued, plus 50 coins of each type minted in gold. Many of these sets have been unfortunately been dismantled and have been sold as individual pieces.