100 Francs Gold Piedfort

The Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer was established in 1966 to manage currency for France's remaining Pacific territories — New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna — after the dissolution of the colonial Banque de l'Indochine's monetary role in the region. Piedfort strikes from this issuer are genuinely uncommon; the IEOM produced them in extremely limited quantities as collector pieces, a practice that was still relatively novel for French overseas monetary authorities in the late 1970s.

At roughly double the weight of a standard flan, the piedfort format was historically used by French mints to provide official presentation pieces to dignitaries and mint officials. This example's .920 fineness aligns with traditional French coin gold rather than the finer bullion standards adopted elsewhere during the same period.