French Indochina 1941-S 10 cents

formerly in the Mountain Groan Collection

This ten cents was struck at San Francisco for the Vichy regime ruling French Indochina, which was unable to obtain coinage from the Paris mint. It superseded the silver ten cents struck heretofore. The Japanese entered French Indochina in September 1940 but did not assert full occupation until July 1941. This occupation caused the U.S. Congress to pass the Export Control Act, embargoing the sale of many strategic commodities to Japan. Japan, in turn, planned and staged the attack on Pearl Harbor and the British colonies at Hong Kong and Malaya in December.

Recorded mintage: 50,000,000.

Specification: 3 g, copper-nickel, 18 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 21.1a.

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:

• 1939 10 cents
• 1939 20 cents
• 1941-S 20 cents
• 1943 5 cents
• Coins and currency dated 1941
• return to coins of French Indo-China