NEW BOOK: FRENCH SOUTHEAST ASIA COINS & CURRENCY

The Catalog and Guidebook of Southeast Asian Coins and Currency, Volume I, France

This catalog's second edition was published in 1978 and it took me only 40 years to collect enough new pieces, research enough new sources, and receive enough new images and data from many contributors to feel confident enough to create the third edition. No one person could have created the catalog and I am VERY thankful to the many contributors. Besides seeing them in the List of Contributors, you will see them mentioned under many of their images.

This book describes and catalogs the legal tender coins and paper money issued by the French in Southeast Asia from the early 19th century to 1955. This work is a comprehensive catalog of French Southeast Asia Coins and Currency covering:

French Cochinchina;
French Indochina;
French Protectorates of Cambodia, Tonkin, Annam, and Laos;
French Republic of Cochinchina;
French Kingdom of Cambodia;
French Kingdom of Laos;
French State of Viet Nam;
French in Siam (Thailand); and the
French in the Dutch East Indies

There are also other financial instruments such as treasury certificates, business and military tokens and scrip, postal pieces, Chinese and Japanese WWII occupation notes, Vietnamese anti-French bonds, and many other pieces. Many pieces have never been illustrated and/or cataloged in any other reference. Besides the detailed information for over 1000 pieces, there is also historical background information. All values are in US Dollars.

I had trouble attaining approval by the censors for my last catalog to print it in Viet Nam and I strongly believe they would not have approved this catalog so I had it printed in the USA. The printer, Better Impressions, in Sterling, Virginia matched the quality of my previous catalogs and he is interested in doing other numismatic catalogs. The printer is Michael Healy and he can be reached at Michael@BetterImpressions.com. It measures 7x10x6/8" so it is in a handy size to carry to a show.

This catalog is in full color and has the largest number of pages (296) than any of my previous catalogs and with over 1000 pieces. Not only does it have the expected French Cochinchina, French Indochina, French Cambodia, French Laos and French Viet Nam, but it also has Bank of Indochina notes and jetons issued in Siam (Thailand), and the French issues of coins and notes in the Dutch East Indies in the early 1800s. There are also some tokens from the French-owned plantations in the Dutch East Indies.

After the legal tender issues, there is a bullion chapter with silver and gold bullion ingots, rounds, and gold wafers. There is a small chapter on patterns, proofs and essais, which is followed by a much larger chapter on counterfeits, replicas and fantasies. There is a small chapter on medals but a reader can see many more of them by emailing me. The next chapter is for miscellaneous and has a large number of pieces like coin jewelry; a treasury gift certificate; lotteries; tram tickets; trade cards; a bill of sale; pension documents; Indian Hundis from Saigon; funeral money; treasury certificates; postal money orders; reply coupons; stamps used as money; bank exchanges and checks; stocks; bonds; business and utility tokens, scrip and checks; Sun Yat Sen bonds sold in the colony; Phan Boi Chau anti-French bonds; military tokens and scrip; Chinese notes used in northern Indochina in 1945-46; Japanese notes used in northern Indochina in 1940; French scrip for interned Japanese after WWII; and coin, note and medal boxes and holders.

There is an extensive bibliography; a French to English glossary; and an index. All of the values are in US dollars and most come from auction results and price lists. I do accumulate corrections from readers and myself and it is available by contacting me at P.O. Box 880067, Port Saint Lucie, FL 34988-0067 or HADANIEL3@MSN.COM.

It is sold by Wayne Herndon's Wizard Coin Supply at www.WizardCoinSupply.com and this catalog and others can be found by typing "Daniel" in the Search.

Binding: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Publication Date: April 10, 2018
Size: 7x10
Pages: 296

For more information, or to order, see:
The Catalog and Guidebook of Southeast Asian Coins and Currency, Volume I, France (https://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/the-catalog-and-guidebook-of-southeast-asian-coins-and-currency-volume-i-france.html)

The Catalog and Guidebook of Southeast Asian Coins and Currency, Volume I, France is the first volume in a five volume, seven book series on Southeast Asia coins and currency by Howard Daniel III:

Volume 1 is French (The Catalog and Guidebook of Southeast Asian Coins and Currency, Volume I, France) currently in its third edition.

Volume 2 is Viet Nam in three parts: Part 1: Empire of Viet Nam (currently in progress) Part 2: Democratic Republic of Viet Nam Coins and Currency currently in its second edition. Part 3: Socialist Republic of Viet Nam Coins and Currency

Volume 3 is Cambodia (Cambodia Coins and Currency)

Volume 4 is Lao (Lao Coins and Currency)

Volume 5 will be Myanmar (Burma)

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