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1 Stuiver 'Cayenne-stuiver' Countermark C12 and C13
| Issuer | Saint Eustatius |
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| Year | 1809-1812 |
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| Technique | Milled, Countermarked |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Saint Eustatius, by 1809, had changed European hands so many times — Dutch, British, French, Dutch again — that its circulating coinage was a chaos of worn Spanish, French, and Dutch pieces with no reliable common denomination. The countermarking program that produced these pieces was a local administrative fix, authorizing debased billon fragments for circulation at a fixed stuiver value during the British occupation period following Rodney's catastrophic 1781 sack of the island.
The C12 and C13 punches are documented as distinct dies in Scholt's reference, applied to host coins of varying origin.