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1 Dollar Pourquoi Pas
| Issuer | Indonesia › Indonesia (1949-date) |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device features an ornate star-shaped medallion design with eight radiating sections filled with foliate and cloud-like relief motifs, enclosed within a circular border with beaded inner rim. Dot ornaments flank the central device on both sides within the field. The legend FLORES arcs along the upper rim, while the denomination ONE DOLLAR is inscribed along the lower rim, both in raised Latin lettering. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Pourquoi Pas was the fourth and final research vessel commanded by the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, lost off the coast of Iceland in September 1936 during a violent storm — Charcot and nearly all hands perished. What an Indonesian commemorative dollar-denomination coin has to do with a French Antarctic expedition ship is not immediately obvious, and no formal bilateral cultural agreement between France and Indonesia explains the issue.
Indonesia has produced a considerable number of these collector-market pieces under dollar denominations with no domestic circulation rationale, struck for the numismatic trade rather than monetary use.