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2000 Francs - François-René de Chateaubriand
| Issuer | Caisse d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | New Franc (1960-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Central portrait vignette of French writer and politician François-René de Chateaubriand, who chronicled the archipelago in his 1791 Mémoires d'outre-tombe. To the left, a three-masted vessel and the flags of the Basque Country, Brittany, and Normandy, reflecting the ancestry of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon's settlers. |
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| Reverse description | Group vignette of local cod fishermen alongside a detailed illustration of a codfish. To the right, the territorial coat of arms of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon surmounted by a naval crown, accompanied by the official motto "A mare labor". A disclaimer legend confirms the note's non-legal-tender, educational and cultural purpose. |
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The Caisse d'Outre-Mer is a private French issuer operating outside the regulated eurozone monetary framework, producing commemorative and collector notes with no legal tender status in France or its overseas territories. This 2000 Francs denomination — referencing a currency France abandoned in 1960 with the introduction of the nouveau franc — is purely a collector artifact, not tied to any living monetary system.
Chateaubriand died in 1848. The pairing of his name with a phantom franc denomination on polymer substrate in 2018 is a commercial decision, not a historical one.