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1 Cash - Bảo Đại Thông Bảo, struck
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1933 |
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| Engraver(s) | René Mercier |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1933: ND (1933) |
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Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1926 at age thirteen, and this cash piece — struck in brass rather than cast in the traditional Chinese manner — reflects the French Protectorate's insistence on modernizing Vietnamese coinage even as the imperial form was preserved for symbolic purposes. The tension is literal: a coin shaped by centuries of Sino-Vietnamese monetary tradition, produced on European minting equipment at the Hanoi mint under colonial administration.
It was among the last cash-type coins issued in Vietnam before the denomination became obsolete entirely.