French Indochina 1921-A 20 cent

Stack's Bowers September 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74476

This specimen was lot 74476 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $65. The catalog description^[1] noted, "FRENCH INDO-CHINA. 20 Centimes, 1921-A. Paris Mint. PCGS MS-63. a crisp and enchantingly Choice specimen that yields dazzling brilliance and some hints of toning throughout." This twenty cent piece is one of a type issued for French Indo-China during 1921-30. French Indochina was occupied by the Japanese in 1940.

Recorded mintage: 3,663,000, a slightly better date.

Specification: 4.50 g, 0.680 fine silver, 25.9 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-17.1; Lec-221.

Source:

• 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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• 1920 20 cents
• 1921-A cent
• 1921 piastre
• 1921-H piastre
• 1922-A 10 cents
• 1922-A 20 cents
• 1922 piastre
• 1922-H piastre
• Coins and currency dated 1921