Does anyone know if Nightingale Island, Gough Island, and Stoltenhoff Island have actual coins issued for them, or are all their issues tokens/fantasy coins?
These are a very grey area. At best, they are very clandestine coinage highjacked by the same people who churn out the Tristan Da Cunha rubbish, at worst they are total fantasies. They are not tokens, and were specifically issued for collectors, regardless of the legal loopholes the profiteers used to get them issued.
The following website shows a lot of coins http://www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Countries/Tristan_da_Cunha.htm
Thank you for this link, paddyman98. I was actually there looking at this info a couple days ago, and still could not figure out if the 1 crown examples for Nightingale Island are coins or tokens because other sites like en.numista describe them as coins but nicolasquentin calls them tokens.
Thank you for this info. I am assembling a coin set of all nations/territories, and I am trying to understand which places actually have coins instead of tokens or fantasies because I do not want the phony stuff. I do have a Tristan Da Cunha crown size 25 pence in my set, but now that I read your comment, is that a token, too?
@Daniel Jones TDC is a sovereign entity, and thusly can issue whatever it wants as 'coin,' in theory. To make money, they contract out that right to firms who produce coins denominated in Pence, Pounds and Crowns. The actual circulating currency of TDC is in fact the British Pound Sterling, and you would not be able to spend any of the coins struck in its name on the island itself - same applies to your islands (although they are not sovereign entities, the authority claiming governance of them does this on their behalf).
