The website austenasia.org currently claims that Austenasia’s 2018 Independence Day Commemorative Coin was sold through the website until stocks were exhausted in November 2019.
The site’s page on Austenasian coins states:
“The coin was available for sale from this website until November 2019, when stocks ran out.”
The claim that the coin was sold from austenasia.org is false. The domain did not exist at the time.
What actually happened?
The 2018–19 coins were not sold from austenasia.org. Contemporary evidence places the sales on Austenasia’s former Webs website.
An archived copy of the sales page from 10 April 2019 remains available through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The archived URL identifies the page as:
austenasia.webs.com/buyacoin.htm
The domain austenasia.org, by contrast, was not registered until 4 June 2025 — more than five years after the current website says the coin ceased being sold.
It was therefore impossible for the coin to have been available for sale “from this website” in 2019. The website from which the coin was actually sold was hosted by Webs, a platform which has since ceased operations, meaning the original Austenasian website itself no longer exists.
The coin itself is not disputed
This fact-check does not dispute the existence or authenticity of the commemorative coin, nor that it was offered for sale.
Indeed, an original example of the coin remains in the possession of the current Austenasian administration and can be seen displayed on a Roman helmet in the 2026 coronation film, The Ascension of Johannes Karl I Augustus:
The issue is solely the claim that the coin was sold “from this website.” Contemporary archived evidence shows that the relevant website was austenasia.webs.com, not austenasia.org.
Austenasian Times Verify has found no evidence establishing why the inaccurate wording appears on the website.
Regardless of how the error arose, the claim as presently written is factually incorrect.
VERDICT: FALSE