MAURITIUS,
    Island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  No humans lived there before the coming of the European colonists with their slaves and indentured servants.  Technically independent today, but the money is still banked in Europe.
My World Coin News article on Mauritian coins

272-271. MAURITIUS, 50 sous K2 ND (1822) part weak VG $65.00 sold 9/27/2010
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