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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Tromelin Island |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | CFP franc (1945-date) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned note with a large vignette of a great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran) set within an elaborate guilloche rosette at left centre, accompanied by an engraved conch shell in the lower left quadrant. To the right, a full-colour container ship occupies the centre field, with the Île Tromelin coat of arms — bearing a white seabird on a blue and grey shield flanked by dolphins — in the upper right corner. A decorative seashell vignette appears at lower right, and the date 2018 is printed in a circular cartouche on the vertical centre band. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an aerial or cartographic view of Tromelin Island accompanied by shark motifs, set against a guilloche underprint in pink tones. A coat of arms composed of dolphins, sea anchors, and a bird is displayed, together with disclaimer text confirming the note's non-legal-tender, collector status, and the copyright notice of BATF. |
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Tromelin Island has a permanent population of zero — a rotating team of French meteorologists, nothing more. It has no economy, no currency, and no issuing authority with any mandate to produce legal tender. Notes marketed under its name are private fantasy issues, produced for the collector novelty trade, with no governmental backing and no circulation story because there is no population to circulate them.
Polymer substrate and professional dimensions do not change that. Cataloging this as a banknote is a categorization decision worth flagging.