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Interesting bargain bin find 1938 5C French Indo-China

Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
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Anyone have any info on this (my 2000 Krause wasn't much help)?



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Please excuse my poor scan.
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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I only have Krause so i can't really add anything you don't already know.

    It is a nice find though. The Indochina coinage is quite nice.
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for showing that coin-what a beautiful obverse! I'll be looking for one now myself...image

    The bust at the top is reminiscent of the designs of some French pattern coins I've seen; not the first time I have seen former pattern designs on colonial or territorial coinage-if it didn't do for France I guess it worked for the colonies.
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    That's a pretty cool coin. Did you get it at a discount because it has a hole in it?


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  • tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
    It looks like the more common nickel-brass version of the 1938 date. Too bad it's not the scarce copper-nickel variety. Did you try measuring the thickness (1.6mm vs 1.3 mm)?
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  • CoincrackerCoincracker Posts: 276
    oooooooooooo....Steve...thats a nice findimage
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    It is a very pretty coin!!

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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    hey! I just noticed that.. image

    The bust on top there looks like the same as the ones used on Cameroun and Togo coins for 1924-5:

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  • NJMark1NJMark1 Posts: 479 ✭
    Here are a 1925 KM 18.1 and a 1939 KM 18.1A


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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    Yep, it's the same engraver too.. A. Patey

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