VIETNAM VERSION FROM FRENCH INDO-CHINA

This note is a delightful note from French Indochina and was one of the last issues before france pulled out and the various countries became independent. This note was circulated around what is now, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

this note is a 1 Piastre (100 piastre = 1 dong) note and each of the notes have the same front (local flora) but the reverse had different pictures depending on which country it was issued in. This note has a temple dragon so it is from the Vietnam area. Cambodia had the royal house boat and Laos had a pagoda .

more french indochina notes HERE and HERE

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10 CENTS FROM THE VICHY GOVERNMENT

This tiny note is from french Indo-china which was an area of SE Asia encompassing Laos Burma,Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. This area was occupied by the french up until the second world war. The 10 Cents note above was printed by the french Vichy government who sided with the nazis and it was printed  in 1942

FRENCH INDO-CHINA

French Indo-china was a french territory in south east Asia.It was established in 1887.the area included what is now Vietnam and Cambodia. In 1893 Laos was added to the region and Guangzhouwan an enclave on the coast of china, was added in 1900  .Beginning in May 1941, the Viet Minh, a communist army led by Ho Chi Minh, began a revolt against French rule known as the First Indochina War. on September 2nd 1945 north Vietnam proclaimed their independence, followed by south Vietnam in June 1949. Then Laos claimed their independence in July of that year and 4 years later in 1953 Cambodia gained its independence.

The note above is a 100 Piastres note and, like Tahiti in the previous post, it has no date but the signatures tell us that it is from between 1947 and 1954. the front has a depiction of Mercury and the reverse has some men with elephants