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!
20 Francs Piedfort gold
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer (IEOM) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1979 |
| 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) | Raymond Joly |
| 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 | RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE R·JOLY I·E·O·M 1979 |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer was established in 1966 to manage currency for France's Pacific territories — New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna — following the dissolution of earlier colonial monetary arrangements. Piedfort issues from the IEOM were struck in very limited numbers, primarily for presentation and archival purposes rather than any circulation intent, and the 1979 gold piedfort series remains among the most sparsely documented of the institution's proof-quality output.
At roughly double the planchet thickness of a standard strike, the gold content here is substantial — a deliberate signal of institutional prestige in an issue never meant to pass through a cashier's hands.