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2 Poe rava Gambier archipelago
| Issuer | French Polynesia › French Polynesia (1957-date) |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The stylised coat of arms of French Polynesia fills the central field, featuring the traditional Polynesian motif with a central vertical element flanked by radiating lines evoking the sun, with crossed fishhooks or decorative bands in the lower central area. The legend MA'AREVA MA is inscribed along the lower rim in Latin characters. The design is rendered in a bold, graphic style drawing on indigenous Polynesian artistic traditions. |
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The Gambier archipelago, lying at the southeastern extreme of French Polynesia some 1,650 kilometers from Tahiti, was among the first island groups in the Pacific brought under intensive French Catholic missionary influence — Father Honoré Laval's near-totalitarian religious administration in the mid-19th century reshaped the entire social structure of Mangareva within a generation. The poe rava, a black pearl of the Pinctada margaritifera oyster, became the archipelago's economic anchor centuries later, with Gambier's lagoon producing some of the darkest, most commercially valuable specimens in the world.