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50 Australes Edmund Fitzgerald
| Issuer | New Jason Islands (Fantasy issuer by Applied Currency Concepts) |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Austral |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-style vignette of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald ore carrier occupies the centre, rendered in red-brown on a teal and blue guilloche underprint. A gold holographic ship's bell appears at lower left, with a large teal numeral '50' at far left. The issuing authority 'NEW JASON ISLANDS', date '2012', denomination '50 AUSTRALES', and facsimile signatures for TREASURER and COMPTROLLER are at right. |
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| Reverse description | A large intaglio-style vignette of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald seen from the port quarter spans the full width of the note, rendered in red-brown on a multicolour guilloche underprint of teal, blue, and green. A ship's wheel vignette appears at lower left alongside the numeral '50'. Spanish-language inscriptions 'Islas Nuevas Sebaldes' and 'Cincuenta Australes' are at upper right, with the ACC logo at lower right. |
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Applied Currency Concepts is a Canadian firm that produces fantasy and specimen-format notes primarily for the collectibles market, occasionally under fictional geographic names with no corresponding sovereign territory. New Jason Islands does not exist as a political or administrative entity — the name borrows from the Jason Islands, a small uninhabited archipelago in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The "Edmund Fitzgerald" denomination name is a novelty choice, referencing the Great Lakes ore carrier that sank in November 1975.
Polymer substrate and hologram inclusion push the production cost well above comparable paper fantasies, which is the point — ACC markets these as technically sophisticated collector pieces rather than simple novelties.