Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Tael
| Issuer | French Indochina |
|---|---|
| Year | 1943-1944 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | R. Mercier |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Chinese/Lao |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (1943-1944) |
| Additional information |
Produced under the Vichy administration governing French Indochina, this tael was struck specifically for the opium trade — the Régie de l'Opium, the colonial monopoly controlling opium distribution across the territory, required a weight-standardized silver medium for large transactions. It was not general circulation coinage in any conventional sense.
The timing matters: by 1944, Japanese forces had effectively absorbed French Indochina into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, leaving Vichy administrators with increasingly nominal authority. Very few reached their intended commercial function before the political situation collapsed entirely.