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WASHINGTON & FANNING ISLAND: 1 dollar token, ND (ca. 1910), EF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Pacific Islands Start Price:80.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
WASHINGTON & FANNING ISLAND: 1 dollar token, ND (ca. 1910), EF
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WASHINGTON & FANNING ISLAND: 1 dollar token, ND (ca. 1910), TC-106332, 38mm aluminum token, CHECK with ornaments above and below with WASHINGTON & FANNING / ISLANDS around // GOOD FOR / $1.00, with ornaments in fields, with flan streaks and field marks, plain edge, EF, ex Karl Stephens, April 1986. The Washington and Fanning Islands are now part of Kiribati. Fanning Island is an atoll now known as Tabuaeran, and is part of the Line Islands. Washington Island is now known as Teraina or Teeraina and is part of the Northern Line Islands. Teraina was sighted on 12 June 1798 by the American whaling captain Edmund Fanning of the Betsy; he named the island for George Washington but did not attempt to land. The first exploration of the island arrived later with captain Adam Johann von Krusenstern, on a Russian expedition (called then New Marquesas). The island was subsequently claimed under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 for the United States under the name "Prospect Island". Guano was never mined or exported to any notable extent, however; the humid climate prevents the formation of substantial deposits. It was occupied by Captain John English and people from Manihiki in about 1860. The first European to sight Tabuaeran was American captain Edmund Fanning of the American ship Betsy on June 11, 1798; it was named for him. At the time, the atoll was uninhabited and, like all of the Line Islands, had no truly native population. After Fanning, it was visited by whalers of several nationalities. The whaler Harriet had wrecked there in late 1831 or early 1832. By 1854, Captain Henry English and 150 labourers from Manihiki settled, and began producing coconut oil for export. He put the island under British protection when Captain W. H. Morshead arrived on HMS Dido on 16 October 1855.