Cambodia 1860 4 francs
This specimen was lot 35300 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $660. The catalog description[1] noted, "CAMBODIA. 4 Francs, 1860. Norodom I. PCGS MS-62." 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: unknown.
Specification: 20 g, silver.
Catalog reference: KMX-M8; Gad-8; Lec-83.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
Link to: