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2000 Francs
| Issuer | Glorioso Islands (Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Size | 155 x 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint on polymer substrate. Left vignette: lemon angelfish (Centropyge flavissima) within a circular guilloche rosette, with a conch shell below. Centre: vertical green band inscribed ÎLES GLORIEUSES. Right: full-rigged sailing ship vignette with the territorial coat of arms at upper right, showing dolphins and a coconut palm on a yellow field. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEUX MILLE FRANCS TERRES AUSTRALES FRANÇAISES 2000 Billet n'ayant pas cours legal, émis a des fins de collection, non remboursable, non échangeable reproduction interdite. ÎLES GLORIEUSES TERRES AUSTRALES FRANÇAISES © BATF |
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The Glorioso Islands have no permanent civilian population, no domestic economy, and no monetary system — they are a French military outpost in the northern Mozambique Channel, administered under the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. No currency has ever been needed there, and none has ever circulated. Notes issued in the name of scattered French island territories like this one are fantasy items produced for the collector market, with no legal tender basis and no issuing authority with the power to create one.
Buy it as a novelty. Do not catalog it as a banknote.