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Stuiver 'Cayenne-Stuiver' Countermarks C16 + C20 + fleur-de-lis
| Issuer | Sint Maarten |
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| Year | 1798 |
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| Weight | 1.8 g |
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| Obverse lettering | SM M |
| Reverse description | Reverse of the host Cayenne Colony 2 Sous piece, featuring a stacked multi-line legend within the central field, itself enclosed by a peripheral circular legend. The design is characteristic of French colonial coinage of the late eighteenth century, with plain legends arranged concentrically around the central inscription. |
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Sint Maarten's chronic shortage of small change in the late eighteenth century was never resolved through fresh mintage — the island simply had no mint. Instead, worn billon stuivers circulating in the French and Dutch Caribbean were countermarked and revalued to keep commerce moving. The fleur-de-lis punch places this piece within the French administrative orbit of Saint-Martin, while the C16 and C20 marks indicate sequential revaluations, a pragmatic layering that makes multiply-punched survivors difficult to attribute with precision.
The Scholt gap in the reference sequence signals how poorly documented this particular combination remains.