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500 Condores Alejandro Selkirk
| Issuer | Chile |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Condor |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ARQUIPELAGO JUAN FERNANDEZ 2014 MONEDA SIN CURSO LEGAL |
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Alejandro Selkirk is one of Chile's more remote Pacific possessions — a volcanic island roughly 670 kilometers west of the mainland, administratively part of the Valparaíso Region. It was renamed in 1966 from "Más Afuera" to honor the Scottish privateer Alexander Selkirk, whose four-year marooning on the nearby island of Más a Tierra directly inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk himself was never stranded on this island, making the naming a matter of geographic tribute rather than historical precision.
This coin belongs to Chile's ongoing bimetallic circulation commemorative series highlighting national territories, most of which saw limited uptake outside collector channels.