fjt_1092557 - FRENCH AFRICA - SENEGAL Compagnie de remorquage n.d.
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Type : Compagnie de remorquage
Date: (1860-1879)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : silver
Diameter : 36,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 21,13 g.
Edge : lisse + abeille ARGENT
Puncheon : Abeille (1860 - 1880) ARGENT
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Petite usure. Traces de manipulation et léger nettoyage dans les champs. Quelques coups sur les bords de la tranche
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : A L'EXERGUE J. ESPARON. SC. PARIS.
Obverse description : Steamer (bâteau à voile et à vapeur) voguant à gauche devant un paysage vallonné, orné de trois palmiers, signé : J. ESPARON SC. PARIS.
Reverse
Reverse legend : COMPAGNIE / DE / REMORQUAGE ET DANS UN CARTOUCHE SÉNÉGAL.
Reverse description : Ancre, tonneau et coffre ; le tout dans un cartouche décoré.
Commentary
Ce jeton est frappé après la fondation de Dakar en 1854 qui devient un port très important de l'Afrique Occidentale Française, point de passage ou étape pour descendre vers le golfe de Guinée ou pour entamer la traversée en vue de rallier Natal, Bahia, Rio ou Buenos Aires. Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur cette société de remorquage dont le siège social était situé à Paris.
This token was minted after the founding of Dakar in 1854, which became a very important port in French West Africa, a crossing point or stage to descend towards the Gulf of Guinea or to begin the crossing to reach Natal, Bahia, Rio or Buenos Aires. We have no information on this towing company whose head office was located in Paris.
This token was minted after the founding of Dakar in 1854, which became a very important port in French West Africa, a crossing point or stage to descend towards the Gulf of Guinea or to begin the crossing to reach Natal, Bahia, Rio or Buenos Aires. We have no information on this towing company whose head office was located in Paris.
Historical background
FRENCH AFRICA - SENEGAL
Senegal has always been an important commercial milestone since the end of the 14th century with the development of maritime construction (caravelle), an obligatory passage point for coasters to reach the Gulf of Guinea before rounding the Cape of Good Hope or leaving for the conquest of South America. A French colony since 1626, the French founded Saint-Louis there in 1638 and settled on the island of Gorée and Casamance. The region was often disputed with England and during the 18th century and the Napoleonic wars, Senegal was occupied by the English. Returned definitively to France by the treaties of Paris of 1814 and 1815, the colony underwent rapid development and Dakar was founded in 1854. Faidherbe, governor of Senegal, pacified the region by fighting the Moors and expelling the Toutcouleurs (1854- 1865). The pacification lasted until 1898. After independence, Léopold Sedar Senghor became President of the Republic of Senegal between 1960 and 1980.
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