v44_1051 - THIRD REPUBLIC - FRENCH WEST-AFRICA Jeton 10, valeur d’échange 50 francs 1883 Paris

THIRD REPUBLIC - FRENCH WEST-AFRICA Jeton 10, valeur d’échange 50 francs 1883 Paris AU

MONNAIES 44 (2010)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Jeton 10, valeur d’échange 50 francs

Date: 1883

Mint name / Town : Paris

Quantity minted : ---

Metal : brass

Diameter : 23,64 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,19 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Quelques petites marques de manipulation dans les champs. Superbe exemplaire ayant conservé son brillant d'origine même si du brun commence à recouvrir les surfaces

Catalogue references :

VG.4001 - Lec.24

Obverse

Obverse legend : OUEST AFRICAIN FRANÇAIS 1883.

Obverse description : au centre 10.

Reverse

Reverse legend : OUEST AFRICAIN FRANÇAIS 1883.

Reverse description : au centre 10.

Historical background

THIRD REPUBLIC - FRENCH WEST-AFRICA

West Africa includes the territories that will become Gabon and the Middle Congo. There was a severe lack of cash in these regions. In the early 1880s, Savorgnan de Brazza imposed countermarked pieces of metal in zinc or tin with shapes that determined the value: 0.10 - 0.20 - 0.50 - 1.00 and 1.50 francs. These parts are raw from manufacture. The second series with the marks 10, 5 and 1 circulates for the equivalent of 50, 25 and 5 francs.