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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Cự Bảo, with Nhất
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1740-1776 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole surrounded by a raised square border, around which four Chinese ideograms are arranged in cruciform fashion, read top to bottom and right to left. The four characters 景興巨寶 (Cảnh Hưng Cự Bảo) occupy the cardinal positions relative to the central perforation. The legends are rendered in regular script (kaishu) and stand within a plain round field, enclosed by a raised outer rim. The casting is typical of Vietnamese cash coinage of the Lê dynasty, with moderately bold relief characters. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cảnh Hưng was the longest-reigning monarch of the Lê dynasty's restored period, holding the throne nominally from 1740 to 1786, though real power shifted progressively to the Trịnh lords who governed from Thăng Long as regents. The cash coinage struck under his reign name is consequently vast in variety — Barker catalogues dozens of distinct types under the Cảnh Hưng series, distinguished by reverse inscription variants like the Nhất marker here, which likely denotes a specific furnace, batch authorization, or mint supervision group rather than a face-value increment.
Toda 114 places this among the more closely documented varieties. The Nhất character was one of several numerical and auspicious characters applied to reverse fields to differentiate casting runs across northern Vietnamese foundries.