Lundy Coinage Discussion.

Here's an interesting sideline to the British Isles & British Commonwealth coinage hobby.It is about the coins of Lundy,which is an island located in the Bristol Channel off the north coast of Devonshire.There were 2 issues of Lundy coinage - the 1929 issue which got Martin Coles Harman,the self-declared 'King of Lundy' in legal trouble.This issue is inscribed 'LUNDY LIGHTS AND LEADS' on the edge of the coins.The second issue is a proof-only issue struck in 1965 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Martin Coles Harman's purchase of Lundy.These pieces have plain edges.Martin Coles Harman died in 1954.

Aidan.