NEW BOOK: COINS OF FRENCH INDOCHINA

The author proposes a study as complete as possible on the history of the currencies of Vietnam, as well as Laos and Cambodia. The subject has received little attention in books dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century.

The French colonizers discover a complex monetary system, inspired by China, and very different from that which exists in Europe. They will try to use these very diverse currencies, often of very low value (but corresponding to the economic needs of the Vietnamese), to copy them by striking sapeques in France.

But colonial economic interests demanding higher values ??will gradually prevail, and piastres, dollars and other "big" pieces will appear.

The author devotes a large part to the technicians and methods of coinage of these coins, as well as to numismatists who, from the end of the nineteenth century have studied local plays, as well as to the beautiful collections existing today in different institutions French.

Format: 158 x 240 mm - Square back
Date of publication: 2017
ISBN: 978-2-84654-470-2
Price: 29,00 €

For more information, see:
Monnaies et numismates d’Indochine française (http://www.lesindessavantes.com/ouvrages/24675)

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