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1 Crown Port Louis

Issuer Falkland Islands
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.

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