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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 7738515, member: 25270&quot;]Greetings, and thank you for joining me on this numismatic tour of the French colonies. One of my major collecting interests is in coins from colonies and obscure places. Over the years I&#039;ve gathered a lot of coins and I decided to scan some examples of them and share with the community here. I want to start by visiting some of the French colonies. The coins of France are rather blah in my opinion, but apparently they saved all their skill for their colonies, because various French colonies include examples of many of my favorite coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I plan to create different threads over the coming days focused on different French colonies, but I&#039;m going to start today with French Indochina. French Indochina included the current countries of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. They were occupied by Japan during World War II, and it was never the same for the French rulers after that, with the various nations gaining their independence in the 1950s. My interest in this post is just the coins from the period of French control. I don&#039;t have an example of every type of coin to show, but here are some to give you an idea. Feel free to share yours as well. These coins seem to have increased in price a lot in recent years and trying to quickly assemble a collection can get expensive. </p><p><br /></p><p>First off are various 1 and 5 cent coins. You would think it would be &quot;centime,&quot; but according to Krause it is not. There are also 1/4 and 1/2 centime coins. I have a 1/2 centime but don&#039;t have a photo. [ATTACH=full]1325111[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1325112[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1325113[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1325114[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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