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2 Escalins
| Issuer | Saint-Domingue (1625-1804) |
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| Year | 1802 |
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| Value | 2 Escalins (3⁄2) |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing the denomination DEUX ESCALIN in two bold lines at center, with the circular legend COLONIE. DE. SAINT. DOMINGUE. running around the full periphery, separated by pellets. The design is of stark simplicity, the denomination forming the sole central device against an otherwise unadorned field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saint-Domingue's monetary situation in 1802 was catastrophic. Napoleon had dispatched General Leclerc with 20,000 troops that January to crush the Haitian Revolution and restore slavery, and the colonial economy — already shattered by a decade of war — had no functioning mint of its own. The 2 Escalins was produced by countermarking and cutting Spanish colonial silver, a makeshift solution to a chronic shortage of recognized local currency.
Leclerc was dead of yellow fever by November of that same year, taking with him any realistic chance of French restoration.