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10 Centimes - Norodom I Pattern
| Issuer | Cambodia |
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| Year | 1875-1899 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Bare, youthful effigy of Norodom I facing left, with naturalistically rendered hair, within a milled border. The engraver's signature C. WURDEN appears in the lower field beneath the portrait. The circular legend NORODOM I ROI DU CAMBODGE surrounds the bust, and the date 1860 is placed prominently in the exergue. |
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| Mintage | ND (1875-1899) - Restrike |
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Norodom I signed the French protectorate treaty in 1863 under considerable duress, and the decades that followed saw France steadily strip the Cambodian court of administrative authority. Coinage was one visible front in that process. Pattern pieces like this one were produced as proposals for a colonial monetary system, most never approved for circulation — which explains both their rarity and their occasionally experimental specifications.
Fr#6a places this among the Frick-referenced Cambodian gold patterns, a tightly documented series with very few confirmed survivors outside major European auction houses.