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| 表面の説明 | Incuse rectangular countermark applied to the obverse of the host coin, bearing a large capital letter 'T' punched into the field. The countermark is centrally placed within a circular inner border, surrounded by the legend of the host Cayenne colony 2 sous coin reading 'CAYENNE COLONIE' around the periphery with the denomination '2 S' visible at the base. The bold, deeply impressed 'T' served as the authorizing mark for circulation in Tortola. |
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| 表面の銘文 | T |
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During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the British Virgin Islands suffered a chronic shortage of small change that colonial authorities addressed through the countermarking of foreign coins already in circulation. The Cayenne 2 sous — billon coinage struck for French Guiana — circulated widely across Caribbean trade routes, making it a practical candidate for official revaluation. A stamped "T" authorized by the Tortola colonial administration converted these French colonial pieces into locally sanctioned currency at 1½ pence.
The practice was not unique to Tortola, but the survival rate of correctly attributed examples is low — many countermarked Caribbean billon pieces of this period have been misidentified or the host coin origin misread entirely.