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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Tortuga Island |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central brass field depicts a detailed right-facing tortoise in high relief, set upon a ground line within an ornate Art Nouveau-style decorative cartouche with scrollwork and foliate elements occupying the copper-nickel ring. The legend ISLA TORTUGA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 5 DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower periphery, both in raised Latin characters. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tortuga Island — the Haitian islet famous as a 17th-century pirate haven under French buccaneers like François l'Ollonais — has no independent monetary authority and issues no legal tender of its own. Coins marketed under its name are privately produced fantasy pieces, struck for the novelty collector market rather than any sovereign purpose. This bimetallic example is one of dozens of such issues that proliferated after 2010, sold through online dealers at multiples of face value to buyers drawn by the name's romantic associations.