Counterstamped Rupee Victoria

Features

Issuer	Djibouti › Obock Territory (1862-1896)
Period	French Protectorates (1884-1896) Second French Colonial Empire (1896-1946)
Type	Emergency coinage › Official necessity coins
Years	1862-1896
Currency	Indian Rupee (1885-1943)
Composition	Silver (.917) (Written: 92.6%)
Weight	11.67 g
Diameter	32 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Counterstamped, Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 458939
References	X# 12 Krause Publications (publisher). Unusual World Coins. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States (5 volumes).

Obverse

Portrait of Queen Victoria, facing left.
Rectangular counterstamp:
bism Allah al-rahman al-rahim darb ubakh
92.6 (%)

Scripts: Arabic, Latin

Lettering: VICTORIA QUEEN

Translation:
bism Allah al-rahman al-rahim darb ubakh
fineness 92.6 (%)

Engraver: William Wyon

Reverse

Value within wreath in English and Urdu (Yek Rupiya), outside wreath English legend & date below.

Scripts: Latin, Urdu

Lettering:
ꕥ EAST INDIA COMPANY ꕥ • 1840
ONE RUPEE
یک روپیہ

Edge

Reeded

Comments

In 1862 French merchants bought Obock, a little harbour on the Red Sea. In 1868, shipowners from Marseille settled in Tadjoura gulf. These territories were then sold to the French government in 1884 and this latter extended its protectorate over all this desertic region which sole advantage of was its strategic position after the Suez Canal being bored. In 1896, Obock, Tadjoura, Damakil and Somali territories became the French Somaliland which capital of is Djibouti. Before WW1, foreign coins were mostly circulating in this territory. Indeed, metropolitan coins were legal tender, but they were too scarce. On November 21st 1885, this obliged Commandant Lagarde to enact an order giving legal tender to Austrian Maria-Theresia Thalers and to British India Rupees and Half Rupees (in the reign of Victoria).

Here, the counterstamp is engraved over a Victoria Rupee.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1862-1896)

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Actual silver weight: 0.344 oz

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