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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6385

Guadeloupe, French Administration, Counter Admiral Lacrosse, Coinage of November 1802, 4-Escalin from a clipped 8-Reales, Countermarked R.F, 10.81g, 12h (KM 3), the host coin fine and darkly toned, the countermark good fine, very rare

By decree of 9 Frimaire an XI (November 30, 1802), Counter Admiral Lacrosse authorized the cutting and stamping of gourdes (mostly Spanish Colonial 8 Reales) to provide for the needed small coinage. Each coin would first have an octagonal central segment removed (and stamped 4 E. R. F. in two lines for 4 Escalins République Française), and the resulting ring would be further cut into 8 segments, each of these stamped with the R. F. letters, and valued at 1 Escalin (the Escalin was the Dutch Schelling or 6 Stuivers, equivalent to the Spanish Colonial 1 Real piece). The operation was made at the expense of the authorities by citizen Monsigny. An initial 2,000 gourdes were authorized for this operation, thus resulting in 2,000 of these 4 Escalins coins.

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