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5 Australes Hafnium
| Issuer | Falkland Islands (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Austral |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | 5n. pru eba AUSTRALES |
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Hafnium is one of the rarest stable metals on earth, named after Hafnia, the Latin for Copenhagen, where it was identified in 1923 by Dirk Coster and Georg de Hevesy using X-ray spectroscopy. Its use as a coinage metal is essentially without precedent in circulation history — this piece exists purely as a collector artifact, one of a handful of monometallic hafnium coins ever produced for any issuing authority. The Falklands denomination in australes is itself an anachronism: Argentina's austral currency was replaced by the peso in 1992, and the islands never adopted it at all.