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!
50 Francs without IEOM, Silver Piedfort
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
|---|---|
| Year | 1967 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
| 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) | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Central panoramic view of the island of Mooréa depicting a mountainous volcanic landscape framed by palm trees on either side, with traditional outrigger canoes on the water in the foreground. The denomination 50 f appears above the central design, flanked by the engraver's initials GA. The circular legend POLYNESIE FRANÇAISE arcs around the upper periphery of the coin. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | POLYNESIE FRANÇAISE 50 f GA (Translation: French Polynesia) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The standard 1967 50 Francs coin bears the inscription "IEOM" — Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer — identifying it as legal tender for French overseas territories in the Pacific. This piedfort omits that inscription entirely, placing it in an ambiguous institutional category that collectors have never fully resolved: deliberate essay, mint error of omission, or internal presentation piece. Piedforts of this era were not sold through normal Monnaie de Paris channels and typically entered collections through philatelic services or direct mint relationships.
Struck at twice the standard planchet thickness, the absence of the IEOM legend on a piedfort this specific is what earns it a discrete Lecompte reference.