French Indochina 1914-A 20 cent
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This specimen was lot 2999 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $154.70. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRENCH INDOCHINA: AR 20 cents, 1914-A, brilliant white with just a hint of peripheral tone, NGC graded MS62." This twenty cent piece is one of a type issued for French Indochina during 1898-1903, 1908-16. The type was reduced to 5.4 grams in 1895 and issued in that form until 1898, when the fineness was reduced to .835. French Indochina was occupied by the Japanese in 1940.
Recorded mintage: 2,500,000, the most common date.
Specification: 5.4 g, 0.835 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-10.
- 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 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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