20 Euros Pattern

Obverse description	Central field features the coat of arms of Saint Martin, depicting a shield bearing a three-masted sailing vessel at sea with a palm tree on a coastal island, enclosed within an ornamental border. The bold legend SAINT MARTIN appears in the upper field in a stylized script. To the right of the shield, the French Republican motto 'liberté égalité fraternité' is inscribed in cursive, with the date 2004 and the monogram RF (République Française) below. The word ESSAI appears at the base of the coin, denoting its trial or pattern status.
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Additional information	Saint Martin — the northern half of a small Caribbean island split since 1648 between French and Dutch administration — issued no regular coinage of its own in 2004. This piece is a pattern, almost certainly produced for collector sale rather than any plausible circulation, in the tradition of privately organized "fantasy" issues that proliferated among French overseas collectivities in the early 2000s. The X# prefix in Krause's Unusual World Coins confirms its status outside mainstream national coinage. The .9167 fineness is standard 22-karat gold, the same alloy used in British sovereigns.