50 Francs

50 Francs - obverse50 Francs - reverse

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Features

Location Europa Island (Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean)
Type Fantasy items › Fantasy currency
Year 2012
Value 50 Francs
50 XPF = USD 0.45
Currency CFP franc (1945-date)
Composition Brass
Weight 12.05 g
Diameter 32 mm
Thickness 2.4 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
53781

Obverse

Ile Europa emblem; two dolphins flanking a turtle in a shield, crowned by banner with the island's name and two anchors.

Assayer's initials near the tail of the dolphin at the right.

With the French Austral Territories legend at bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ÎLE EUROPA
TERRES AUSTRALES FRANÇAISES
JJ

Reverse

Four-mast galleon at sea as center piece. With value divided at top, date near the ship's bow. With legend at bottom with the recorded date of the island's first sighting.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
50 Frs
2012
Carrack Henry Grace à Dieu 1514

Edge

Smooth.

Comments

Europa Island is a 28 km² low-lying tropical island in the Mozambique Channel, about a third of the way from southern Madagascar to southern Mozambique.

While the island has probably been sighted by navigators since at least the 16th century, it takes its name from the British ship Europa, which visited it in December 1774. Ruins and graves on Europa island attest to several attempts at settlement from the 1860s to the 1920s. For example, the French Rosiers family moved to the island in 1860, but subsequently abandoned it.

The island has been a possession of France since 1897, but is also claimed by Madagascar. The island, garrisoned by a detachment from Réunion, has a weather station and is visited by scientists. Though uninhabited, it is part of the "Scattered Islands" of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands administrative region.

This issue is part of a series of coins dedicated to French Overseas Departments and Territories.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
2012 

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