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Stuiver 'Cayenne-Stuiver' Countermark C16, Host coin Danish Skilling
| Issuer | Sint Maarten |
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| Year | 1798 |
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| Value | 1 Stuiver |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1798: ND (1798) |
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Sint Maarten's chronic shortage of small change in the late eighteenth century forced colonial administrators into improvised solutions. Danish skillings — circulating as trade coinage throughout the Caribbean — were countermarked with a "C" punch to authorize their use as stuivers on the island, a unilateral act with no sanction from the metropolitan authorities in the Netherlands.
The host coins themselves originated in Copenhagen but found their way to the Lesser Antilles through the dense web of inter-island commerce that ignored political boundaries entirely. Surviving examples vary considerably in the clarity of the countermark strike, a predictable consequence of applying a hand punch to a coin already in circulation.