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750 Francs Bass islands
| Issuer | Institut d'Emission d'Outre-Mer (IEOM) |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two sea turtles rendered in high relief occupy the central field, crawling rightward across the lower portion of the design, with a large circular sun or moon motif rising behind rocky island silhouettes in the background. A seagull in flight is depicted in the upper right of the central composition. The denomination 750 fr appears in the lower centre, the date 2023 to the right, the engraver's initials ВБ (Cyrillic monogram of Vitaly Bakhtinov) below the turtles, and the issuer's name INSTITUT D'EMISSION D'OUTRE-MER curves along the lower edge. The topmost edge bears the legend ILES de BASS. |
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The Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer issues currency for France's Pacific collectivities — New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna — operating as the monetary authority in place of the Banque de France. The Bass Islands, known in French as Îles Bass or Îles Marotiri, are among the most remote and inhospitable points in French Polynesia: uninhabited rock stacks at the southeastern extreme of the Austral archipelago, rarely visited and never permanently settled.
The silver-plated copper-nickel format places this squarely in the modern collector-issue category, struck for the numismatic market rather than circulation.