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fco_520237 - FRENCH ISLANDS AND BOURBON - FIRST EMPIRE - DECAEN GENERAL Piastre Decaen 1810 Port-Louis
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Price : 600.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 600.00 €
Type : Piastre Decaen
Date: 1810
Mint name / Town : Port-Louis
Quantity minted : 200000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 840 ‰
Diameter : 39,45 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 26,64 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré sur un flan régulier, légèrement voilé. La pièce présente une usure importante dans les parties centrales. Elle présente des rayures dans les champs de l’avers. Elle est revêtue d’une patine gris clair homogène
Obverse
Obverse legend : ILES DE FRANCE - ET BONAPARTE.
Obverse description : Aigle debout de face sur un foudre, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à droite, monté d'une couronne ; signé AVELINE à l'exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DIX/ LIVRES EN DEUX LIGNES.
Reverse description : dans une couronne formée de deux branches de laurier ; à l'exergue 1810.
Commentary
Ces pièces furent fabriquées suite aux arrêtés, insérés dans le code des Îles de France et de la Réunion, publiés à l'Île de France (Île Maurice) par le général Decaen. Les pièces furent frappées à partir des lingots d'argent récupérés sur l'Ouvidor, navire hollandais qui fut capturé par l'Entreprenant du capitaine Bouvet, un corsaire français. Le nom de la pièce vient du général gouverneur Charles Decaen.
These coins were made following the decrees, inserted into the code of the Îles de France and Réunion, published in Île de France (Mauritius) by General Decaen. The coins were minted from silver ingots recovered from the Ouvidor, a Dutch ship that was captured by Captain Bouvet's Entreprenant, a French privateer. The name of the coin comes from the governor general Charles Decaen
These coins were made following the decrees, inserted into the code of the Îles de France and Réunion, published in Île de France (Mauritius) by General Decaen. The coins were minted from silver ingots recovered from the Ouvidor, a Dutch ship that was captured by Captain Bouvet's Entreprenant, a French privateer. The name of the coin comes from the governor general Charles Decaen
Historical background
FRENCH ISLANDS AND BOURBON - FIRST EMPIRE - DECAEN GENERAL
(1810)
The islands of Mauritius and Reunion were discovered by the Portuguese Pedro Mascarenhas in 1507. Mauritius was occupied by the Dutch from 1638. The French seized it in 1715 and the island received the name of Ile de France. The Compagnie des Indes settled in Port Louis in 1720. In 1810, the island was occupied by the English and became an English colony after the Treaties of Paris in 1814 and 1815. Bourbon Island was colonized by the French between 1638 and 1646 then granted first to the Compagnie des Indes Orientales founded on August 27, 1664, then to the Compagnie Française des Indes in 1719. Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen (13/04/1769 - 9/09/1832), general in the Army of the Rhine, was appointed Captain-General of the French establishments in India in 1802. He had to withdraw to the Ile de France (or Bonaparte). It also administers Réunion and the Seychelles. He must nevertheless capitulate on December 2, 1810 and evacuate Bonaparte Island after having obtained guarantees for the inhabitants of the islands..
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