I can't speak for the Romanian coins, but among other reasons that you could have Indian coins in Southern France are French citizens returning from the French colonies in IndoChina (Southeast Asia.....i.e. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc) who stopped in India enroute. Additionally the French were in head to head competition with the British for control of India from the late 1600's until about the mid 1700's and later. And speaking of the British, if the coins date from about the time of the Napoleonic wars or earlier, they could very well have come from British troops (probably officers) who had previously been stationed in India. One of those British troops marching through France who would have been previously stationed in India, was Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington.
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