Live auction - fco_523957 - REPUBLIC OF INDEPENDENT GUYANA Essai de 20 centimes 1887 Bruxelles
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| Estimate : | 300 € |
| Price : | 165 € |
| Maximum bid : | 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 09 April 2019 16:38:11 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Essai de 20 centimes
Date: 1887
Mint name / Town : Bruxelles
Metal : nickel silver
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,84 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
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.
Commentary
Les pièces de la République indépendante de Guyane furent probablement fabriquées à Bruxelles dans les ateliers de Charles Wurden, spécialisé dans la fabrication des monnaies d'états fantômes ou de fantaisie. Certaines de ses fabrications sont pourtant devenues des types monétaires officiels et reconnus, comme au Cambodge, lorsque les états virtuels pour lesquels il avait créé des monnaies se sont concrétisés. Pour la Guyane, nous avons des pièces de 10 et de 20 centimes et de 5 francs. La République de Guyane indépendante aurait pu réussir mais ces monnaies sont le dernier témoignage qui nous en reste.
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.
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