French Indochina 1911-A 20 cent
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This specimen was lot 3656 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRENCH INDOCHINA: French Colony, AR 20 centimes, 1911-A, Paris Mint, a lovely example, PCGS graded MS63, ex Howard A. Daniel III Collection." This type was struck 1898-1903, 1908-16 for French Indochina, a region of southeast Asia now comprising Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This is a common date. The subsequent issue of 1920 (KM 14) was only 0.400 fine.
Recorded mintage: 2,340,000.
Specifications: 5.4 g, 0.835 fine silver, 26 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-10, Lec-210.
- Gadoury, Victor, and George Cousinié, Monnaies Coloniales Françaises, 1670-1988, 2me Éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 1988.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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