French Indochina 1941-S 20 cents
This specimen was lot 46630 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Oklahoma City, OK, August 2025), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRENCH INDO-CHINA. 20 Centimes, 1941-S. San Francisco Mint. NGC MS-66." This type was struck in 1939 at Paris and in 1941 at San Francisco. It superseded the silver twenty cents struck heretofore.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: 25,000,000.
Specification: 6 g, copper nickel, 24 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-23a.2; Lec-248.
- 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, August 2025 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Richard August Collection and the Richard Margolis Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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