See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

6 Livres 15 Sous

Issuer Saint Lucia
Year 1813
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Countermarked
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering II· A S:Lucie ·1781·
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage ND (1813) - KM#10.1 Countermark on 8 Reales of Charles III -
ND (1813) - KM#10.2 Countermark on 8 Reales of Charles IV -
Additional information

Saint Lucia in 1813 was under British administration — captured from France definitively in 1814, though effectively British-controlled since 1803 — yet still operating a French-currency accounting system for local transactions. This coin is a product of that administrative awkwardness: a British colonial authority issuing denominations expressed in livres and sous, a French monetary framework that the island's population simply refused to abandon. The two varieties under KM#10 reflect die differences introduced during the same production run, not separate issue years.

Cut and counterstamped from Spanish colonial eight-reale pieces, the host coins were Spanish-American silver redirected through Caribbean monetary improvisation.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE