Cambodia 1860 10 centimes
This specimen was lot 1938 in Sedwick Auction 36 (Winter Park, FL, November 2024), where it sold for $156. The catalog description[1] noted, "CAMBODIA, struck at the Brussels Mint, bronze 10 centimes, Norodom I, 1860, NGC MS 63 BN. Well struck with much red mint luster highlighting the design." In 1860, Norodom ordered a series of patterns from Europe (mint not known but likely Paris or Brussels) for a proposed milled coinage which never came off. Silver piastres, four francs, two francs, one francs, fifty centimes and twenty-five centimes and bronze ten, five, two and one centimes were prepared, all conforming to French standards. Later, pieforts and off-metal strikes were made and sold to collectors, leading to a profusion of listings in the Unusual World Coins.
Recorded mintage: supposedly 10,267,000 plus proofs and restrikes but this coin is never seen circulated.
Specification: 10 g, bronze.
Catalog reference: KM XM3 (formerly KM-43.1); Lec-22.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia, Cori Sedwick Downing, Connor Falk and Sarah Sproles, Treasure Auction 36, World, U.S Coins and Paper Money, featuring the Luis R. Ponte collection, the Jorge Becerra Collection and the John M. O'Brien collection, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2024.
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