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Republic of Haiti

The island of Haiti was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. In 1659, the French proclaimed the colony of San Domingo on part of the island. During the colonial period, no special coins were minted for the island. It was easier to use Spanish silver dollars (8 reais) of Mexican coinage, on which over-checks were applied in order to control the money supply and prevent counterfeiting. At the same time, coins of the metropolis circulated in parallel in the country and natural exchange was widely used, in which tobacco and sugar were used in the calculations.

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Second French colonial Empire (1814-1962)

Coins of French colonial possessions are a rather voluminous topic, so you can't do without a separate review. Historians distinguish between two periods - the First French Colonial Empire (1546-1809) and the Second French Colonial Empire (1814-1962). The transition between them is due to the loss of overseas territories: Louisiana, Haiti and Guiana. 

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Coins of the Third French Republic

In the second month of the Franco-Prussian War, September 2, 1870 at the Battle of Sedan, the French Emperor Napoleon III was captured. The anti-monarchist revolutionary masses of France do not miss this opportunity and call for the overthrow of the Emperor and the establishment of Republican rule. Coins issued by France between 1870 and 1939, called the Third Republic, will be discussed in this review.

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French tokens (Monnaies de nécessité)

Like most German urban municipalities, a number of cities and departments of France during and after the end of World War I mastered the production of their notgeld, or, more correctly, tokens (Monnaies de nécessité ). French tokens can be roughly divided into two categories: official - issued by local chambers of commerce (circulated throughout the region or city) and private issues (accepted for payment by the canteen of a particular factory, bakery, cooperative, transport company, etc.).

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Coins of foreign states during the First World War.

Монеты Первой мировой войны
Those who are fond of the history of minting coins by European states at the beginning of the last century could not help but notice that due to military needs, a number of countries during the First World War were forced to abandon the issue of coins from strategic materials such as brass, bronze, copper, nickel and switch to less popular in the military industry zinc and steel. Issued coins sometimes repeated the design of their pre-war "predecessors," but only in a different material, or, came out in a completely new design . I want to tell you about these coins, as well as coins issued by the conquering countries for circulation in the occupied territories, accompanying my review with illustrations of coins from my own collection.

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