25 Sous - George IV Piedfort

Piedforts — struck at double or greater thickness on standard dies — were produced almost exclusively as presentation pieces or for official archive sets, never entering circulation. This example from 1822 predates Mauritius's first regular bronze coinage by several decades; the island was still operating largely on a chaotic mix of French colonial currency and imported Spanish, Dutch, and English pieces. The piedfort almost certainly served an administrative rather than commercial purpose, likely struck for submission to London or for a colonial governor's records.