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2-1/4 Pence
| Issuer | Saint Kitts |
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| Year | 1801-1825 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Saint Kitts produced a series of cut and countermarked coinage in the early nineteenth century as a stopgap against chronic coin shortages throughout the British Caribbean. The 2-1/4 pence denomination is a peculiarity born of arithmetic: Spanish silver reales, cut into segments, required fractional valuations that aligned with neither British sterling nor local accounts, producing denominations that exist nowhere else in numismatic history.
These billon pieces were officially sanctioned by the colonial assembly rather than the Crown, which accounts for their irregular production window and the variation in counterstamp quality seen across surviving examples.