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1 Cent Pattern
| Issuer | French Indochina |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a central circular perforation surrounded by a raised ring, flanked symmetrically by two upward-curving grain stalks in low relief. The legend ETAT FRANCAIS is inscribed in two lines across the upper field, with the date 1943 appearing in the lower field beneath the hole. The design is austere and typographical in character, reflecting the Vichy-era French State's administrative coinage style. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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By 1943, the Japanese occupation had severed French Indochina from its normal metal supply chains almost entirely. The colonial administration experimented with aluminium for subsidiary coinage as copper and zinc were increasingly requisitioned for the war effort. These pattern pieces — referenced under Lec#109b and 109c — represent trial strikes that never advanced to full production, leaving mintage figures effectively unknowable and surviving examples confined almost exclusively to specialist collections.