10 Cents

Issuer	Gouvernement Général de l'Indochine
Year	1939
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Printer	Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, Hanoi, French Indochina
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Obverse description	Central vignette to the left presents a stone bas-relief of an Apsara, the celestial dancer of Khmer iconography, with the silhouette of Angkor Wat rendered as a background underprint. A dancer figure appears in the foreground, lending the composition a layered, artistic depth characteristic of colonial-era Indochinese notes. The engraved title inscription and denomination appear within the surrounding border, with the printer's credit to G. Barrière and IDEO Hanoi noted at the lower margin.
Obverse lettering	GOUVERNEMENT GÉNÉRAL DE L'INDOCHINE 10 CENTS PAYABLES AU PORTEUR EN INDOCHINE EN ESPÈCES G. BARRIÈRE IDEO HANOI
Reverse description	The reverse carries a rural village scene with Asian elephants, evoking the agrarian and cultural landscape of Indochina. The denomination is rendered in four scripts — Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, and Chinese — reflecting the multilingual administrative territory of French Indochina. The composition is framed by a simple guilloche border typical of small-format emergency and auxiliary currency issues of the period.
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