Vietnamese Cash - Machine-struck Cash

Machine-struck Cash

There were several efforts by French administration to produce machine-struck cash (sapeque):

• French Cochinchina
  1/1000 Piastre 1878
  copper

• French Cochinchina
  1/500 Piastre 1879
  copper

• French Indochina
  1/500 Piastre 1902
  copper

• Tonkin
  1/600 Piastre 1905
  zinc

• Khai Dinh Thong Bao 啟定通寶 (1916-1925)
  Cast (left) and Machine-struck (right) coins

Emperors Khải Định (1916–1925) and Bảo Đại (1925–1945) produced both cast and machine-struck cash.