MAYOTTE

SILVER PROOF COIN

 

Mayotte is located off the eastern coast of Africa.  It has a population of about 85,000. When the three northern islands of the Comoros group   unilaterally declared independence in 1975, Mayotte chose to remain with France. Since then there has been an ongoing dispute, with the Comoros claiming Mayotte, with France upholding the rights of the inhabitants to choose their own destiny.  The obverse of the silver 1/4 Euro pictures Louis Oscar Roty, while the reverse shows a vignette from his 1893 silver medal Maternitè (Maternity).