10 Cents

These pieces were struck for the French Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the small archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland that remained French territory after the broader loss of New France. Paris produced this series across roughly a decade to meet the colony's modest but persistent need for small-denomination silver, the islands having no mint of their own and relying entirely on metropolitan supply runs.

The Lecompte reference numbers span seven varieties across the decade, distinguishing issues by date.