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22 Livres
| Issuer | Martinique (Overseas France) |
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| Year | 1802-1809 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Host coin reverse of the 1779 Portuguese 4000 Reis (Peca) struck at Lisbon, presenting the conjoined draped busts of Queen Maria I and King Peter III facing right in profile, with the date 1779 and mintmark appearing in the exergue below. The portraits are rendered in the classical style characteristic of late 18th-century Portuguese royal coinage, with the royal couple's busts overlapping in the tradition of co-regency portraiture. The surrounding field retains the original milled border of the host coin, with the Portuguese royal legend encircling the design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 22 livres of Martinique occupies an unusual niche in French colonial monetary history. Britain occupied the island from 1794 to 1802, and again from 1809 onward — meaning the window in which this piece circulated under French authority was extraordinarily narrow. The denomination itself reflects a local accounting system that persisted in the Caribbean colonies well after metropolitan France had moved to decimal currency under the Consulate.
Pridmore 10 is a rare survivor from that brief interregnum between occupations.