100 Francs

100 Francs - obverse100 Francs - reverse

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Features

Location Tromelin Island (Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean)
Type Fantasy items › Fantasy currency
Year 2013
Value 100 Francs
Composition Brass
Weight 12 g
Diameter 30 mm
Thickness 2.52 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
100262

Obverse

The emblem of Tromelin Island (two dolphins flanking a duck in a shield, crowned by a banner with the island's name and two anchors) and the assayer's initials near the tail of the dolphin at the right with the TERRES AUSTRALES FRANÇAISES legend at the bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ÎLE TROMELIN
TERRES AUSTRALES FRANÇAISES
JJ

Translation:
Tromelin Island
French Austral Lands
JJ

Reverse

Ship, value, and date

Script: Latin

Lettering:
100 Frs
2013
carrack Grosser Adler von Lübeck 1566

Translation:
100 Francs
2013
Great Eagle of Lubeck 1566

Edge

Smooth

Comments

Tromelin is a low, flat, island in the Indian Ocean, about 350 kilometres (220 mi) east of Madagascar. The island was first recorded by a French navigator, Jean Marie Briand de la Feuillée, in 1722 and initially named Île des Sables.

It is administered as a French overseas territory, as the result of an agreement with the United Kingdom in 1954, but sovereignty is disputed with ownership claimed by both Mauritius and Seychelles. In 2010, France and Mauritius reached an agreement to co-manage Tromelin.

Currently, the island has a weather station and is a nesting site for boobies and green sea turtles.

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
2013 

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