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Asking For Help Identifying Foreign Coin (with photographs)

Half-Hound

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The coin has a diameter smaller than a half, but larger than a quarter. The edge looks like a 90% silver coin, but the date is 1983. I really don’t think it is silver, but it is certainly too heavy to be aluminum. Obverse (?) says: “REPUBLIQUE” and “FRANCAISE” and “I E O M” and has a female image similar to Miss Liberty. Reverse (?) says: “20” and “POLYNESIE” and “FRANCAISE” and has an image of what may be a breadfruit branch with fruit.

Does anyone know the national origin of this coin and what the metal composition may be?

Thanks for any help.

Half Hound
 

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Here is the information about its composition.

HH,
65GT350

KM# 9 20 FRANCS
10.0000 g., Nickel, 28.3 mm. Obv: Capped head left, date and
legend below Obv. Leg.: I. E. O. M. Rev: Flowers, vanilla shoots,
bread fruit
 
French Polynesia
 

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