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20 Sous British occupation
| Issuer | Guadeloupe |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse retains the heavily worn and partially obscured original design of the host French 12 Sols coin (C#44), struck between 1743 and 1770. Remnants of the original floral and foliate decorative elements are faintly visible around the perimeter of the field, with a large flat depression at centre caused by the countermark punch applied to the obverse. The original legends and devices are largely illegible due to the mechanical distortion from countermarking and subsequent circulation wear. |
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Struck under British occupation of Guadeloupe, which lasted from 1810 until the island's return to France under the Treaty of Paris in 1814. The British administrator authorized local coinage to address a chronic shortage of small silver in circulation — a problem that had plagued the island since the Revolutionary period disrupted normal supply from metropolitan France.
KM#16 is a cut and countermarked issue, produced by applying a crowned "G" stamp to Spanish colonial reales cut to approximate the correct weight. The crude nature of production is intentional, not a strike deficiency.