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REPUBLIC OF INDEPENDENT GUYANA Essai de 20 centimes 1887 Bruxelles ? XF

MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 160.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 160.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 160.00 €

Type : Essai de 20 centimes

Date: 1887

Mint name / Town : Bruxelles ?

Metal : nickel silver

Diameter : 22,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,88 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Très bel exemplaire avec les listels bien marqués. Le brillant d’origine est encore visible sous une patine grise qui recouvre cet exemplaire

Catalogue references :

VG.4065 - GC.13 - Lec.35 - Maz./col.494

Obverse

Obverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE DE LA GUYANNE INDÉPENDANTE.

Obverse description : Tête de la République, coiffée d'un bonnet phrygien, les cheveux longs ; le bonnet, timbré d'une étoile ; sous la tête, ESSAI et rosette.

Reverse

Reverse legend : (ROSETTE) LIBERTÉ * JUSTICE (ROSETTE) / (ROSETTE) 1887 (ROSETTE).

Reverse description : 20/ CENT. dans une couronne formée d’une branche de laurier et d’une branche d’olivier.

Historical background

REPUBLIC OF INDEPENDENT GUYANA

(1887)

The inhabitants of Counani, a disputed territory between France and Brazil, founded a republic under the direction of a Mr. Gros with some French adventurers in 1886. This republic was recognized neither by France nor by Brazil. She disappeared after a year. France requested the arbitration of Russia to fix the border between French Guyana and Dutch Guyana, which agreed to recognize the course of the border fixed by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. The course of the Awa River became the border line between the two countries. The discovery of gold in 1895 in the Carsevène region reignited the Franco-Brazilian conflict. Cabral, a Brazilian gang leader, seized the disputed territory of Counani. France and Brazil have recourse to the arbitration of Switzerland by the convention of April 10, 1895. On December 1, 1900, the Swiss commission decides to delimit the disputed zone by the Yapock river which leads to Cape Orange and will separate the French zones and brazilian. Brazil annexes the territory of Counani which takes the name of Aricary.