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The polyoxometalate (NH4)6H2(CeMo12O42)·9H2O (abbreviated as CeIVMo12) was synthesized, and its Ce(III) form was obtained by exhaustive electrochemical reduction. Both forms are fairly stable in pH 0.0 media.This stability decreases when the pH increases. The Ce(IV) species, in which the central metal is in the f0electronic configuration, is found to fluoresce, a feature that is only straightforwardly explained with theCe(III) state. As the results of a series of experiments converge to confirm the stability of CeIVMo12 in themedia studied, a suggested rationale is that the emission originates from a higher-energy ligand-to-metalcharge transfer and follows a scheme which is ultimately equivalent to the classical metal-centered fluorescenceof Ce(III). Detailed studies of the influences of pH and ionic strength were carried out and suggest thatprotonated and/or ion-paired assemblies are the fluorescent species. A reproducible increase of the fluorescenceintensity of CeIVMo12 as a function of time was also observed.