The Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises has no permanent civilian population, making its coinage entirely a collector enterprise administered through the French Treasury. TAAF issues have been produced since 1948, though none have ever circulated in any conventional sense — the territory's inhabitants are rotating scientific personnel on fixed contracts.
Brass issues from this authority are struck in limited runs by the Monnaie de Paris.
The Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises has no permanent civilian population, making its coinage entirely a collector enterprise administered through the French Treasury. TAAF issues have been produced since 1948, though none have ever circulated in any conventional sense — the territory's inhabitants are rotating scientific personnel on fixed contracts.
Brass issues from this authority are struck in limited runs by the Monnaie de Paris.