500 Poa Crescent Island

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.