2 Francs Chesterfield islands

2 Francs (Chesterfield islands) - obverse2 Francs (Chesterfield islands) - reverse

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Features

Location New Caledonia (Overseas France)
Type Fantasy items › Fantasy currency
Year 2015
Value 2 Francs
Composition Brass
Weight 4.1 g
Diameter 18 mm
Thickness 2.1 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
100316

Obverse

Shell and polynesian symbols.

Script: Latin

Lettering: ILES CHESTERFIELD

Reverse

Whale.
Value.
Date.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ILES CHESTERFIELD
2 F
2015

Edge

Plain

Comments

Chesterfield Islands is a French archipelago of New Caledonia located in the Coral Sea, 550 km northwest of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia. The archipelago is 120 km long and 70 km broad, made up of 11 islets and many reefs. The land area of the islands is less than 10 km².

Bellona Reef, 164 km south-southeast of Chesterfield, is geologically separated from the Chesterfield archipelago but commonly included.

Booby Reef in the center of the eastern chain of reefs and islets comprising Chesterfield Reefs appears to have been discovered first by Lt. Henry Lidgbird Ball in HMS Supply on the way from Sydney to Batavia (modern day Jakarta) in 1790. The following June, William Wright Bampton became embayed for five days at the north end of Chesterfield Reefs in the Indiaman Shah Hormuzeer, together with Mathew Bowes Alt in the whaler Chesterfield. Bampton reported two islets with trees and a number of birds of different species that flew around the ships.

The area is a wintering ground for numerous Humpback whales and smaller numbers of Sperm whales. During the 19th century the Chesterfield Islands were visited by increasing numbers of whalers during the off season in New Zealand.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
2015 

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