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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 731377, member: 4703&quot;]It looks like to get definitive information on this one, you&#039;ll have to wait for a real expert on French-related tokens to respond to your post..&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What I can tell you is that the obverse outer legend means &quot;against a deposit in the treasury&quot;, and the inner legend means &quot;good for 50 centimes&quot;.&nbsp; The figure on the reverse is Marianne, the French embodiment of liberty, whom many people believe to be the inspiration for our own walking liberty half dollars and ASEs.</p><p><br /></p><p>No such coin/token is listed in the 19th Century volume of the Standard Catalog of World Coins under France, French Colonies, or Martinique.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the 20th Century there were Chamber of Commerce semi-official coins with the &quot;bon pour&quot; legend, but until now I was not aware of any in the 19th Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without a picture there&#039;s no way to be sure, but your description appears to match the one listed as KM#674 in the SCWC and Y#69 in the Yeoman numbering system.&nbsp; If so, it&#039;s a bronze 5 centimos, about 24mm in diameter, and valued between 75¢ and $90 in the 2001 3rd Ed. of the catalog, depending on condition.&nbsp; The legend &quot;Rey Conste de Espana&quot; means &quot;King of Spain&quot;.&nbsp; Frankly, I have no idea what &quot;Conste&quot; means, and Babelfish won&#039;t translate it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Por La Gracia De Dios&quot;, of course, is &quot;By the Grace of God.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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