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500 Australes Titanic

Issuer New Jason Islands
Year 2012
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Currency Austral
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Reverse description The left panel carries a detailed cross-section vignette of the Titanic's interior decks rendered in fine line engraving, captioned R.M.S. TITANIC, with the ACC medallion logo and printer's website below. A vertical iridescent security stripe bearing repeated 500 numerals divides the note. The right panel shows a simplified outline silhouette of the vessel above the commemorative legend 100th ANNIVERSARY 1912-2012 in gold, with the Spanish issuer name and denomination at top right.
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Protection type Hologram, Security stripe
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The New Jason Islands are an uninhabited group of Falkland Islands Dependencies with no indigenous population, no government, and no economy requiring a circulating currency. Notes issued in this name are souvenir or novelty pieces produced for the collector market — the "issuer" is a legal fiction constructed specifically to support that trade. Applied Currency Concepts, a Canadian firm, has produced several such fantasy notes under obscure territorial names, leveraging polymer substrate and holographic elements to lend an air of legitimacy.

The Titanic theme places this squarely in the commemorative novelty category. No monetary authority sanctioned it.

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