2 Livres 5 Sous

Saint Lucia changed hands fourteen times between Britain and France before finally being ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1814. This issue was struck just one year prior, under a colonial administration navigating that chronic instability. The cut-and-countermarked coinage of the Caribbean colonies was a practical response to chronic silver shortages — Spanish colonial pieces were cut into segments and restamped to assign local values, with denominations often bearing little clean relationship to the original coin's weight.

The KM#9 attribution places this among the countermarked cob or milled Hispanic-American silver that circulated throughout the Lesser Antilles under British colonial authority during the Napoleonic period.