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200 Francs
| Issuer | Amsterdam and Saint Paul (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Amsterdam and Saint Paul are among the most remote inhabited territories on earth — Amsterdam Island hosts a small permanent station, and Saint Paul is uninhabited entirely. Coins issued for these districts under the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF) umbrella circulate in essentially no meaningful commercial sense; they are fiscal curiosities produced for collectors, since the islands have no resident civilian population requiring currency.
The TAAF administrative structure assigns separate coin issues to each of its districts, a bureaucratic quirk that generates a steady stream of low-mintage pieces for a territory whose total non-scientific population rounds to zero.