50 Francs without IEOM, Silver Piedfort

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.