1912 20 cents French Indo china coin

Posted by slang on January 23, 2009

Earlier articles on different weightage for 20 cents 1900, 1911 and 1913 refers.

Below date is a key date for the 20 cent Mint-mark “A” French Indo China coins. Its mintage is only .160 million units compared to other dates. However, the interesting part of this particular coin is that it does not weight 0.835 silver, 0.1450 oz ASW as listed in the Krause catalogue but instead weighed 0.6800 silver,.1181 oz ASW reverse legend show TITRE 0.680 POIDS 5 GR.4