French Indochina 1937 10 cents

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck 1937 only. It is the last and most common of the silver ten cent pieces and was accompanied by a silver twenty cents (KM 17.2). The next issue of ten cents, in 1939, was in base metal.

Recorded mintage: 25,000,000.

Specification: 2.7 g, 0.680 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 16.2.

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.

Link to:

• 1930-A 10 cent
• 1936 50 cent
• 1937 5 cent
• 1937 20 cent
• Coins and currency dated 1937
• return to coins of French Indo-China