20 Sous British occupation

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.