v30_1258 - FRENCH UNION - FRENCH INDOCHINA Essai 50 centimes 1946 Paris

FRENCH UNION - FRENCH INDOCHINA Essai 50 centimes 1946 Paris MS

MONNAIES 30 (2007)
Starting price : 70.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 115.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 305.00 €

Type : Essai 50 centimes

Date: 1946

Mint name / Town : Paris

Quantity minted : 1100

Metal : bronze-nickel

Diameter : 29,28 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 12,33 g.

Edge : striée

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Infimes taches, très joli début de patine, orange et bleue

Catalogue references :

Lec.264

Obverse

Obverse legend : REPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE// (1946) À L'EXERGUE ET BARRE / ESSAI.

Obverse description : La République assise à gauche de trois quarts de face, radiée et drapée tenant un faisceau de licteur, appuyée sur un gouvernail et une ancre ; devant elle une rizière ; signé BARRE à l'exergue.

Reverse

Reverse legend : .INDO-CHINE FRANÇAISE. / BRONZE DE NICKEL.

Reverse description : en légendes circulaires, au centre en deux lignes : 50/ CENT..

Historical background

FRENCH UNION - FRENCH INDOCHINA

(1946-1954)

Indochina had been occupied by Japan at the end of World War II. After a period of hesitation in 1945, the bombardment of Haiphong and the massacres of Hanoi, the war in Indochina began in 1946, initiated by the communist Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) who used the very lively Vietnamese national feeling , to proclaim himself President of the Republic with Giap as Minister of Defense and the former Emperor Bao Dai as adviser. The Viet Minh seizes Hanoi by treachery. The conflict will last eight years and erase eighty years of French presence in Southeast Asia.

FRENCH UNION - FRENCH INDOCHINA 50 Centimes nickel 1946 Paris AU

120.00 €

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