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GUADELOUPE - GUADELOUPE
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2191
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GUADELOUPE - GUADELOUPE
See original version (French)
Estimate €500
Voluntary lot
Description
GUADELOUPE - GUADELOUPE
British occupation. 9-pound pierced flask (equivalent to 8 Mexican reales) (1811) on 1793 FM, Mexico then Guadeloupe.
Obverse: CAROLUS. IIII. – DEI. GRATIA. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust facing right; below (date); hallmark G crowned.
Rev. .HISPAN. ET IND. REX. (mint mark). 8 R. (variant). Crowned shield, between two columns with the banner PLVS - VLTRA; countermark: a crowned ‘G’.
Lec.19 – Jambu/BnF 108–109 v.; Silver – 23.87 g – 39 mm – 12 h
NGC VF DETAILS CLEANED (8769662-028).
With central square pierced (from the reverse) and countermarks featuring a crowned ‘G’. Slight grey patina. TTB.
The British occupation of Guadeloupe in 1810 led to a monetary reform pursuant to a decree of 6 May 1811. 10,000 Spanish American piastres were pierced, to be worth 9 colonial pounds, and the central square, or ‘moco’, was worth 1 pound 20 sous. The perforation was made on the reverse side of the piastres, which became the obverse of the perforated gourdes (Jambu pp. 38–39). The hallmark featuring a crowned ‘G’ stands for Guadeloupe, or George III according to the English, or even for Gobert of Basse-Terre, the silversmith chosen for this work.
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