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20 Sous British occupation
| Issuer | Guadeloupe |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Value | 20 Sous (1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of the cut plug presents a plain or near-plain surface resulting from the force of the countermark strike on the obverse, which displaced the metal and left the reverse largely featureless. Faint, ghosted impressions or incuse traces from the original host coin's design may occasionally be discernible in the field, though these are incidental rather than intentional elements of the issue. No deliberate legend, device, or inscription was applied to this side. |
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Struck under British occupation of Guadeloupe, which lasted from 1810 to 1816 after Admiral Alexander Cochrane's forces took the island from Napoleon's empire. The British administered the colony while simultaneously needing a functioning local currency — a practical problem solved by countermarking existing French colonial pieces rather than shipping specie from England.
The Zay and Pridmore references both treat this issue with some skepticism regarding precise emission dates within the occupation window. KM#19 attribution places it firmly in 1811, though the countermarking process was irregular enough that exact dating relies heavily on host coin identification.