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| Issuer | Tromelin Island (Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | TROMELIN 3 francs |
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Tromelin is an uninhabited French-administered island northeast of Madagascar, claimed simultaneously by Mauritius and Madagascar — a territorial dispute that has dragged on for decades without resolution. France has periodically issued collector tokens attributed to its Scattered Islands territories, which have no permanent population, no economy, and no circulating coinage of any kind. This piece exists entirely as a numismatic novelty, its issuing authority a geographic designation rather than a functioning state.