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English: CAMBODIA ARCHIVE

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THE COINS BELOW ARE NOT FOR SALE. This is a compilation of past for-sale offers of Cambodian coinage, with background information on the series.  HERE are the for-sale offers.

FOX COLLECTION:    The core of this listing is the collection of the late Anton Fox, one of the best ever formed. Anton began collecting the Indochina series generally when he served there during the Vietnam War, but by the 1980s had confined his interests largely to the coinage of Cambodia and the medals of French Indochina. He was a serious researcher and buyer in both series, and dealt with auction houses in Asia, Europe, and the US.

LITERATURE    For convenience the listings are referenced to K#s (Bruce, Colin, SCWC, 19th & 20th C. editions), though it is incomplete, filled with errors, and the 1860 series has been moved to Unusual World Coins!. I have made up or modified some numbers. KM's valuations are not useful either. L = Lecompte, Jean, Monnaies et Jetons des Colonies Françaises, 2000 Ed. the best reference for the 1860-1953 series, successor to Gadoury, whose 1979 and 1988 Coloniales works included post-1953 issues. A useful limited edition coin & banknotes catalog has been produced by Allan Lim. For much of the background information on early series I am indebted to Joe Cribb: "A Hoard of Cambodian Coins," Coin Hoards VI, 1981, p.129-135, and "The Introduction of European Style Coins in Cambodia," seriaized in Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin 1981-82, and Charles Panish, "The Coins of North Cambodia," ANA Museum Notes 20, 1975, p. 161-174. Also useful is H. Rolland, "Ètude Numismatique sur le Protectorat du Cambodge" in Courrier Numismatique #29, 1932.