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| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2008 PM |
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Port Louis was founded in 1764 by French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who named it after Louis XV and established it as the first permanent settlement on the islands — a fact the British later found inconvenient when asserting prior claim. France sold its rights to Spain in 1767, and the settlement was subsequently abandoned, leaving the Falklands in a contested limbo that persisted, in various forms, for another two centuries.