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1 Franc Essai
| Issuer | New Hebrides (1906-1980) |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Weight | 2 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1970 - - 1,250 |
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The New Hebrides was an Anglo-French condominium — one of the stranger colonial arrangements in Pacific history, running parallel administrations, parallel currencies, and parallel legal systems simultaneously. The essai (pattern) pieces of 1970 were struck in Paris as the condominium began formalizing its own coinage, separate from the Australian pounds and French francs that had circulated informally for decades. Essais were produced for official approval and distribution to collectors and institutions, never for circulation.
The aluminium-nickel-bronze composition was ultimately adopted for the circulation strikes that followed.