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Token - 1000 Guilders
| Issuer | Mauritius |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Guilder |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 NEDERLANDS MAURITIUS 1000 UITGEGEVEN DOOR DE VERENIGDE OOST-INDISCHE COMPAGNIE KRACHTENS KONINKLIJK BESLUIT kolonie 1638 gevestigd Yuri Minkin GEEN WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL NEDERLANDS MAURITIUS 1638 - 1710 MASCARINUS MASCARIN 1000 DUIZEND GULDEN OPSTEL BANKBILJET 2016 SPECIMEN GEEN WAARDE (Translation: Dutch Mauritius Issued by The United East India Company Under Royal Decree colony 1638 established Not Legal Means Of Payment Dutch Mauritius Thousand Guilders Draft Banknote Specimen No Value) |
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| Protection description | Vertical holographic security strip applied along the left side of the obverse |
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| Comments |
This is not a banknote. Yuri Minkin is a Ukrainian-born fantasy note designer whose "tokens" are commercially produced novelty items with no legal tender status, no issuing authority mandate, and no relationship to the Bank of Mauritius. The 1000 Guilders denomination is itself a fiction — Mauritius has used the rupee since 1876 and never issued guilders.
Polymer substrate and a holographic strip give it a superficial resemblance to circulating currency, which is the point. Collectors should catalog these under fantasy/novelty issues, not under Mauritius government emissions.