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[Colonial Currency / Numismatics / French Indochina / Cochinchina / Third Republic] Commercial Piastre, “Barre” type. Paris, 1903. Silver medal. Obverse: An allegory of the Republic seated to the left in three-quarter profile, radiate and draped, holding a lictor’s fasces, her left arm resting on a ship’s rudder and a marine anchor. In the foreground, a motif of a rice paddy in growth. Circular inscription: “REPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE.” Signed “BARRE” and dated “1903” in the exergue. Reverse: The face value and the mint mark inscribed on four lines in the center of the field: “PIASTRE / DE / COMMERCE / A,” the whole encircled by a composite wreath formed of intertwined olive and oak branches. Inscription along the upper border: “FRENCH INDOCHINA,” and along the lower border: “FINE 0.900. WEIGHT 27 GR.” Ribbed edge. Diameter: 39 mm. Weight: 26.83 g. As is.
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