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6 Livres 15 Sous
| Issuer | Saint Lucia |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Value | 6 Livres 15 Sous |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the quartered royal arms of Spain as struck on the original Carlos III 8 Reales of 1781, comprising the castles of Castile and the rampant lions of León arranged in the four quarters of a crowned shield. The royal crown surmounts the escutcheon. Partial legend fragments from the original coin are visible along the lower margin, reading IND · R, remnants of the standard Carolinian HISPANIARUM ET INDIARUM REX legend. The reeded edge of the original host coin is visible along the cut edges of this section. |
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Saint Lucia in 1813 was under British administration — captured from France definitively in 1814, though effectively British-controlled since 1803 — yet still operating a French-currency accounting system for local transactions. This coin is a product of that administrative awkwardness: a British colonial authority issuing denominations expressed in livres and sous, a French monetary framework that the island's population simply refused to abandon. The two varieties under KM#10 reflect die differences introduced during the same production run, not separate issue years.
Cut and counterstamped from Spanish colonial eight-reale pieces, the host coins were Spanish-American silver redirected through Caribbean monetary improvisation.