Help my daughter ID this

JRocco

I gave my daughter a box full of old foreign coins I have had from when I was a kid and would you know, the first coin she pulls out is this- and I, of course, couldn't tell her what it was. I'm sure it doesn't have much value other then memories of my early years going thru old coin boxes. Anyway- thanks in advance.

elverno

Republic of France, 1938 10 Centimes. No Krause at work so I'm not sure if it's a colonial issue... Someone will be here soon though.

newsman

It's a homeland issue

cladking

This is a very common cu/ni coin in virtually all grades. Nice gems can be a little
harder to find but Krause overrates this one at $4 in unc and $1.75 in XF.

satootoko

It's either KM#866a (copper-nickle, mintage 17-million+), KM#889.1 (nickle-bronze, mintage 24-million+), or KM#889.2 (nickle-bronze, thin flan, no separate mintage figure given). 1938 was the final mintage year for the basic design, which began as a nickle coin in 1914. Some interesting history there for the YN - a design which started it's life before WW I, and ended on the eve of "the big one". It's in pretty decent shape for it's age!

tbirde56

That's the nickel-bronze version identifiable by the dots on either end of the date. Mintage was 24.151 million and value is about .50 in its VF condition. The RF stands for Republique Francias and a liberty cap is above it. Oak branches surround that design with an olive branch on the denomination side.

JRocco

Thanks a million for the info. My daughter copied and pasted some of your responses and is starting a folder for "her collection". I think I may have a budding darksider on my hands here.

tbirde56