v09_1667 - HAITI 15 sols 1808/7

MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 243.92 €

Type : 15 sols

Date: 1808/7

Metal : silver

Diameter : 21,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 2,64 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Frappe locale fruste. La pièce a peu circulé. Listel irrégulier au droit

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.19/6

Obverse

Obverse legend : MONNOIE D'HAYTI/ 15 - SOL// 1808.

Obverse description : La Liberté drapée debout de face, tenant une pique de la main droite surmontée d'un bonnet phrygien et appuyée de la main gauche sur un faisceau.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LIBERTAS. RELIGIO. MORES..

Reverse description : Écu au monogramme d'Henri Christophe entre deux palmes surmonté d'une couronne.

Reverse translation : (Liberté, Religion, Mœurs).

Commentary

Le 8 du millésime est refait sur le 7 de 1807.

Historical background

HAITI

(1804-1820)

Toussaint Louverture, in revolt against the Convention, seized Hispaniola, the Spanish part of the island. In 1802, Bonaparte sent General Leclerc, Pauline's husband, to restore order. 20,000 soldiers landed in Santo Domingo and Toussaint-Louverture was captured. He was to die in France in 1804. Hostilities, however, resumed under the leadership of Dessalines. Decimated by fevers, Leclerc himself died, the French abandoned the island. Haiti's independence was proclaimed on January 1, 1804, and Dessalines became emperor under the name of Jacques I (1804-1806). He was assassinated two years later. Henri Christophe, a black, seized power and had himself proclaimed king (1811-1820) while Pétion, a mulatto, created a Republic in part of the island (1807-1818).

5 Gourdes Lot HAITI 1987 P.245a et P.246 F

4.00 €

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