1767-A Sou - 'RF' Stamp
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The 1767 Sou is a French colonial copper coin struck at the Paris mint (mint mark A) under the authority of Louis XV, the Well-Beloved (r. 1715-1774). French authorities approved a copper sou of 12 deniers for the colonies in late 1766, and the Paris mint struck it with the legend COLONIES FRANÇOISES. Jambu writes that it was meant only for the Lesser Antilles and was refused at once: Martinique loaded the coins on ships bound for France, while Guadeloupe stored them and then counterstamped and used them during the Revolution. This example carries that counterstamp, RF for République Française, which Jambu and the Stack's Bowers catalogue (citing Breen) place in Guadeloupe in 1793.
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