v30_1257 - FRENCH UNION - FRENCH INDOCHINA Essai 20 centimes 1945 Paris
MONNAIES 30 (2007)
Starting price : 40.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 70.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 100.00 €
Starting price : 40.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 70.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 100.00 €
Type : Essai 20 centimes
Date: 1945
Mint name / Town : Paris
Quantity minted : 1100
Metal : aluminium
Diameter : 27,03 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,21 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
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Obverse
Obverse legend : REPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE/ P. TURIN ; À L'EXERGUE 1945.
Obverse description : Buste de Marianne à droite, coiffée du bonnet phrygien, drapée, tenant un rameau d'olivier avec deux branches.
Reverse
Reverse legend : INDOCHINE - FRANÇAISE / 20 - CENT. ET ESSAI.
Reverse description : accostant deux branches de riz.
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.
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