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1 Escalin
| Issuer | Saint-Domingue (1625-1804) |
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| Year | 1802 |
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| Value | 1 Escalin = 15 Sous (¾) |
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| Obverse description | A full-length draped allegorical figure of the French Republic stands facing, rendered in neoclassical style. To her left stands a fasces — the Roman symbol of authority — while in her raised right hand she holds a pole surmounted by a liberty cap (Phrygian cap), emblematic of freedom. Three decorative pellets appear in the lower exergue. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE is inscribed around the periphery in Latin script. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The 1802 escalin was struck at a moment when Saint-Domingue was effectively ungovernable. Napoleon had dispatched the Leclerc expedition that same year — some 20,000 troops — to crush the Haitian Revolution and restore French authority, with slavery's reinstatement as the unspoken objective. The expedition failed catastrophically, decimating itself against both the insurgency and yellow fever.
This is among the final colonial issues before independence in 1804 ended French administration permanently. KM#22 was cut down from Spanish colonial silver, the cob and milled reales that formed the monetary backbone of the Caribbean economy throughout the eighteenth century.