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50 Francs Chesterfield islands
| Issuer | New Caledonia (Overseas France) |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Weight | 12.3 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ILES CHESTERFIELD |
| Reverse description | A stylized humpback whale depicted in decorative Polynesian artistic style with intricate tribal patterning fills the lower portion of the field. The denomination 50 F appears in large numerals to the left, with the date 2015 below it. The legend ILES CHESTERFIELD curves along the upper periphery in a rounded typeface matching the obverse. |
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The Chesterfield Islands are an uninhabited reef system roughly 550 km northwest of New Caledonia's main island, administered as part of the French territorial collectivity but seldom featured on circulating coinage. This 2015 issue belongs to a commemorative series produced by the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer celebrating the scattered island dependencies of the Pacific territories — a quietly methodical cataloguing of France's remaining oceanic presence.
Nickel plated steel replaced earlier cupro-nickel compositions across French Pacific issues as production costs rose through the 2000s.