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One Piastre

            The French began their Indo-Chinese empire in 1862 with Cochinchina which is the area around the Mekong Delta and Saigon, and which is nowadays the extreme southern part of Vietnam. This empire very quickly expanded to include Cambodia which had been a vassal state of the Kingdom of Siam. In 1875, the French introduced a Cambodian franc to Cambodia. Although these francs were minted in Belgium between 1875 and 1885, they always bore the date 1860. The French also began to introduce a subsidiary coinage in 'cents' into Cochinchina in the late 1870s. These cents were actually subsidiary coinage of the Mexican dollar unit as opposed to being subsidiary coinage of the French franc.

In 1884, the French empire in Indo-China further expanded to incorporate Annam and Tonkin. The following year, in 1885, the French introduced a new silver piastre de commerce and associated subsidiary coinage throughout the entire Indo-Chinese colonies in order to increase monetary stability. The piastre was initially equivalent to the Mexican peso. The piastre was therefore a direct lineal descendant of the Spanish pieces of eight that had been brought to the Orient from Mexico on the Manila Galleons. It was initially on a silver standard of 1 piastre = 24.4935 grams pure silver( coin weight 27.215 grams ) This was reduced to 24.3 grams ( coin weight 27 grams ) in 1895.  { From Wikipedia }
Unfortunately this coin is a fake one , if real coin with the same condition like this one it will cost at least 200 US $ .

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Taken on: October 28, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D750, f/4.5, 1/20 sec, 105mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D750
Lens:	105.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.05 sec (1/20)
Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Soft
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)
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