1943 French 1 franc aluminium

Hello everyone, was just wondering about the value of the 1943 aluminium 1 franc (4400 minted) according to the stats on here.

Quote: tony_k_1965Hello everyone, was just wondering about the value of the 1943 aluminium 1 franc (4400 minted) according to the stats on here.




Made a mistake scanned 2 different coins, shame though.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces708.html

  Ah yes - the obverse (head) side is correct - KM# 885a
and the reverse is from the other 1943 1 franc KM# 902

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=35623&worldcoinid=103022&FromSearch=true

  So 4,400 mintage is agreed on there, and value from US $1,500 to 6,000

How could that coin have possibly been minted in 1943?

the date is from this coin, not so rare https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18132.html

No, I know that,  but the top coin, if you click on its numista link, says 4,400 were minted in 1943?  Where?  Vichy france controlled the south, the germans controlled the north and didn't mint coins there; the french government was based in England, and to my knowledge didn't mint coins there.  Africa, perhaps?  

 I see what you mean; I looked on two sites - and quote ...

"During World War II, the US struck coins for Fiji under Britain,
and for Belgium, France, and Netherlands, which were liberated from Germany."

"The Vichy France was the collaborationist French government after France was defeated by Germany in World War II.  Its administrative capital was in the town of Vichy The coins were struck in Nazi occupied Paris and circulated in both the German occupied and Vichy controlled portions of France."

But wait, I have a complete collection of Vichy coins, I'm clear on those.  But why did the French Republic coin coins in 1943, and where would they have been used.  The French would have controlled a portion of Africa, a portion of South America, and a handful of islands at that point, and that's really it.