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1 Stuiver 'Cayenne-stuiver' Countermark C12 and C13
| Issuer | Saint Eustatius |
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| Year | 1809-1812 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Saint Eustatius, by 1809, had changed hands so many times — Dutch, British, French, back again — that its monetary supply was a chaos of foreign coins in varying states of wear and debased silver. The Cayenne-stuiver countermarks were applied to French Guiana billon pieces as a colonial stopgap, authorizing foreign-struck coins for local circulation when no legitimate supply existed. Two countermarks on a single piece indicates successive revalidations, each one a small bureaucratic acknowledgment that the island still had no better solution.