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fco_979983 - FRENCH COCHINCHINA 1 Sapèque (2/1000 de Piastre) 1879 Paris
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Type : 1 Sapèque (2/1000 de Piastre)
Date: 1879
Mint name / Town : Paris
Quantity minted : 20000000
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,06 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
restes de brillant de frappe, points d’oxydation
Obverse
Obverse legend : COCHINCHINE FRANCAISE // A / 1879.
Obverse description : dans le champ.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN CARACTÈRES CHINOIS) 南安之 - 當 - 國法大 // 二.
Reverse description : dans le champ.
Historical background
FRENCH COCHINCHINA
A region of the lower Mekong plains, Cochinchina was traveled by French missionaries in the 19th century. Persecuted by the Annamese emperors, they appealed to the government and Saigon was occupied in 1859, then the rest of Cochinchina from 1862 to 1867. Cochinchina was then attached to Indochina. It is now part of Vietnam.
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