2 Sous Colonie de Cayenne - Louis XVI - Piedfort

Features

Issuer	French Guiana (Overseas France)
King	Louis XVI (1774-1792)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1789
Value	2 Sous (0.1)
Currency	Livre tournois (1780-1818)
Composition	Billon
Weight	4.12 g
Diameter	22 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 307575
References	Lec# 22 Jean Lecompte; 2007. Monnaies et jetons des colonies françaises = Coins and Tokens of the French Colonies (2^nd Edition). Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco.

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Obverse

One royal crown with 6 arches on top of 3 lis flowers.

Script: Latin

Lettering: LOUIS XVI.R.DE FR. ET DE NAV.

Unabridged legend: Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre

Engraver: Pierre-Benjamin Duvivier

Reverse

Value and date inside a circle, itself surrounded by the emitting authority inside a grénetis close to the edge of the coin.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
COLONIE DE CAYENNE
2
SOUS
1789
A

Translation: Colony of Cayenne

Mint

A	Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

Comments

Not to be confused with N# 8454 . The present coin is a piedfort and has thus a bigger mass than the other coin; the crown has 6 arches whereas the crown on the other coin has only 5 arches.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1789 A						$ 14	$ 26

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