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500 Australes Titanic
| Issuer | New Jason Islands |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows an intaglio-style side elevation of R.M.S. Titanic underway, with finely engraved hull detail and rigging. Upper left carries a holographic foil vignette of an iceberg with the numeral 100, flanked by the commemorative dates 1912 and 2012. Denomination 500 AUSTRALES appears in large numerals top right and bottom left, with issuer name NEW JASON ISLANDS below the ship. |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 100 1912 2012 TITANIC NEW JASON ISLANDS 2012 TREASURER COMPTROLLER 500 AUSTRALES |
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The New Jason Islands are an uninhabited group of Falkland Islands Dependencies with no indigenous population, no government, and no economy requiring a circulating currency. Notes issued in this name are souvenir or novelty pieces produced for the collector market — the "issuer" is a legal fiction constructed specifically to support that trade. Applied Currency Concepts, a Canadian firm, has produced several such fantasy notes under obscure territorial names, leveraging polymer substrate and holographic elements to lend an air of legitimacy.
The Titanic theme places this squarely in the commemorative novelty category. No monetary authority sanctioned it.