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1781-A (Paris Mint) Isles de France et de Bourbon Three Sous. Vlack 399, overstruck on an earlier S

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1781-A (Paris Mint) Isles de France et de Bourbon Three Sous.  Vlack 399, overstruck on an earlier S

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1781-A (Paris Mint) Isles de France et de Bourbon Three Sous. Vlack 399, overstruck on an earlier Sous Marques. Rarity-6. This is the Vlack PLATE COIN in his book, and was offered as Lot 5465 in the Stack’s January, 2008 sale of his collection where it was described as: “Fine. Struck for the Ile de France et de Bourbon and included here as overstruck on a 1741-A sou marque. Brown. The Vlack Plate Coin.” The legends of the overstrike a bit weak at the lower obverse and upper reverse, as struck; the 1741 date of the host coin visible at the right reverse. While not part of the West Indies issues per se, their overstriking on earlier Sous Marques ties them to the series. These were struck for a pair of islands, the Ile de Bourbon now known as Réunion, lying in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar, while the Ile de France didn’t stay French and fell to British forces during the Napoleonic Wars, and is now known as Mauritius – the Sous Marques were exceptionally well-traveled after they ceased being used in North America!