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2 Livres 5 Sous British occupation
| Issuer | Guadeloupe |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Value | 2 Livres 5 Sous (2.25) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Guadeloupe changed hands repeatedly during the Napoleonic Wars — French, British, Swedish, French again — and the 1813 British occupation coinage was struck under Governor General Sholto Charles Douglas to address a chronic shortage of specie on the island. Local commerce had been grinding along on a patchwork of foreign coins, cut pieces, and countermarked currency for years before Douglas authorized this issue.
The denomination itself is a hybrid, combining the French livre system still in daily use among the population with British administrative oversight — a practical compromise rather than a political statement. British control ended the following year when the island was returned to France under the Treaty of Paris.