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The French began their Indo-Chinese empire in 1862 with Cochinchina which is the area around the Mekong Delta and Saigon, and which is nowadays the extreme southern part of Vietnam. This empire very quickly expanded to include Cambodia which had been a vassal state of the Kingdom of Siam.
- Piastre
When the French colonised Indochina, they began issuing the...
- Piastre
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1947 as the Indochinese Federation, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954.
The Banque de l'Indochine was formally established by presidential decree on 21 January 1875, with privilege to issue banknotes (initially in French franc and from 1885 in French Indochinese piastre) backed by its bullion reserves.
La piastra è stata la moneta dell'Indocina francese tra il 1885 e il 1952. Era suddivisa in 100 centième o cent, ognuno di 5 sapeque. 100 piastre/riel cambogiane, 1954
When the French colonised Indochina, they began issuing the new French Indochinese piastre (piastre de commerce), which was equal in value to the familiar Spanish and Mexican pesos. In the Ottoman Empire, the word piastre was a colloquial European name of Kuruş.
The Piastres affair, also known as Piastres scandal or Piastres trade (French: l'affaire des piastres, le scandale des piastres, or le trafic de piastres), was a financial-political scandal of the French Fourth Republic during the First Indochina War from 1950 to 1953.
22 mag 2022 · The currency unit for French Indochina was called “piastre” with one piastre equal to 100 cents, and one cent equal to 2 to 6 sapèques as the Vietnamese-style coins were called by the French (cent-sapèque relation depending on the specific time period).
