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½ Poe rava Apataki
| Issuer | French Polynesia › French Polynesia (1957-date) |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2015 |
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The poe rava — the black pearl — anchors French Polynesia's coinage identity in a way few natural products anchor any currency. Apataki atoll, one of the Tuamotu archipelago's principal pearl-farming lagoons, lends this denomination its secondary name under the geographic series introduced by the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer. That series replaced the earlier generic Pacific franc issues as a deliberate assertion of territorial distinctiveness, each value tied to a specific island or product rather than the colonial abstraction of a unified franc zone.