PCGS SP63 plate corner (28672594).
Av. REPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE. Around the central perforation: Liberty bonnet with 12 (11?) petal lotus flower above, two olive branches around and 1 CENT below.
Rv. INDOCHINA - FRENCH. Around the central perforation, with two rice branches: 1 and CENT; in exergue (date).
Lec.106d = this example; Lead - 26.01 g - 28.6 mm - 12 h
Top Pop: the only graded example! From the Jean Lecompte collection. This is the specimen illustrating Jean Lecompte's book, Monnaies et jetons de l'Indochine française, published by Gadoury.
PCGS SP63 plate coin (28672594).
Special strike (SP) on a lead disc over 40 millimeters long, for test coins in progress, with 12-petal lotus flower (but the strike is slightly trefoiled). Of a simplified type: almost certainly a rough draft of this type by René Mercier, preceding the 11-petal lotus corners and those with the tricolor cockade. A unique proof of museum interest! Superb at Fleur de coin.
