French Indochina 1903-A 20 cent

Stephen Album sale 43, lot 2076

This specimen was lot 2076 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $168. The catalog description^[1] noted, "FRENCH INDOCHINA: AR 20 cents, 1903-A, rare date, cleaned, AU, R. NOTE: This coin has been cleaned, which we did not mention in the printed catalog." This type was struck 1898-1903, 1908-16 and this is a better date.

Recorded mintage: 675,000.

Specification: 5.4 g, 0.835 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-10, Lec-206.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Gadoury, Victor, and George Cousinié, Monnaies Coloniales Françaises, 1670-1988, 2me Éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 1988.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

Link to:

• 1902 sapeque
• 1902 20 cents
• 1902 piastre
• Coins and currency dated 1903