1086475 | ISLE DE FRANCE ET BONAPARTE. Napoleon I. (Premier Empire, 1804-1814). 1810 AR 10 Livres (Decaen Piastre). PCGS AU50. By Aveline. Port Luis Mint. ILES DE FRANCE - ET BONAPARTE. Crowned eagle clutching / DIX/ LIVRES. Value within wreath above date. KM 1; Lecompte 14.

The 10 Livres was a coin that Governor Decaen had minted at Île de France in 1810. He entrusted the coining to the engraver "Aveline", who designed the coins and whose signature appears on them below the crowned eagle. The silver for the coining these pieces came from approximately 230,000 dollars that the Portuguese ship Ovidor Pereira was carrying from Macao when Lieutenant Pierre Bouvet of French brig Entreprenant (1808) captured her in the Straits of Malacca on October 20th, 1809. From a reported mintage of 200,000 pieces according to Lecompte.


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