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3 Francs Siberian tiger
| Issuer | Tromelin Island (Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | CFP franc (1945-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield-shaped coat of arms depicting two lions passant guardant arranged in two registers, flanked on either side by an olive branch in high relief. Above the shield, two crossed diagonal banners frame the denomination legend. The inscription TROMELIN arcs along the upper border, with the denomination '3 francs' displayed prominently between the banners in the upper field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tromelin Island is an uninhabited French territory administered by the TAAF — the French Southern and Antarctic Lands — and has no indigenous population, no economy, and no circulating currency. Coins issued under its name are legal tender in the loosest bureaucratic sense, authorized specifically for the collector market. This piece, depicting a Siberian tiger with no geographic connection to a small flat island in the Indian Ocean, illustrates how minor French territories have been systematically exploited as issuing authorities for thematic numismatic products since the 1990s.
The brass-with-paper-colorization construction is not a minting process — it is closer to printing. Specialist collectors generally exclude these from type sets on that basis.