Numismatic curiosities game - Round 1

Hello there!

For some weeks now, I thought about a new kind of numismatic game. I figured out that there are numismatic areas we generally know very little of. But since this is online era, maybe we can dig something out. Someone might know someone, have access to libraries hosting some odd studies, or actually be a local from the area, able to contact a local museum or even have an actual coin from there.

And together, we may fill some holes in the catalog. Maybe we will create better issuer introduction, find something about the currency or we may get pictures and info about individual coins. In the end, catalogue will be enriched and we all can learn something new about area we never gave thought about earlier.

For this week, I selected Saint Barthelemy. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/saint-bartholomew-1.html It was Swedish colony between 1784 and 1878 and in that time, they countermarked coins. Whole catalogue is from Krause, with occassional picture from online auctions.
I contacted only 1 user I know of who suposedly owns one of these coins to have a look on this thread.

Now I will leave it here for all of you out there as curious as me.

Jarek

I was able to find another auction listing for a countermark on an American 1 Cent coin: https://coins.ha.com/itm/saint-bartholomew/world-coins/st-bartholomew-cent-nd-1834-km-unlisted-ahlstrom-4b-crown-type-12-swedish-crown-counterstamped-on-a-usa-large-cent-1801-/a/378-14477.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

However, in the auction listing it lists a reference number from "Sveriges besittningsmynt : Die Münzen schwedischen Besitzungen : Coins of the Swedish possessions : 1561-1878" by Bjarne Ahlström. Perhaps there is where we can find some further information.

Hello.
I once saw an auction on eBay with a 1 Franc coin from Napoleon III with a countermark ST.BARTH

I also have a 2 Spanish Reales coin with a countermark that could be the 9 stuivers of St. Barthelemy

Found one here.
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1027598