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500 Poa Crescent Island
| Issuer | French Polynesia › French Polynesia (1957-date) |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Reference(s) | X#1 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a mirror-image inversion of the obverse design, produced as a consequence of the molding process through the blue acrylic medium. The tropical island motif with two palm trees is visible in reverse relief, and all legends — 'ILE CRESCENT' along the upper border, '500 POA' and '2006' in the lower field — appear laterally reversed, confirming the piece was struck or molded as a single transparent disc. |
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Poa Island — a tiny motu in the Leeward Islands — issued this piece as a local scrip token rather than any officially sanctioned currency. French Polynesia's territorial administration has never recognized such issues, placing this squarely in the category of "fantasy" or "local emergency" coinage depending on how generously one reads the circumstances. The blue acrylic composition alone marks it as outside any standard minting tradition.