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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Chí Bảo
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1740-1776 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse description | Cast copper cash coin featuring a central square perforation surrounded by a raised inner rim. Four Chinese characters arranged in cruciform fashion around the central hole, read in the traditional order top-bottom, right-left: 景 (top), 至 (right), 興 (bottom), 寶 (left), together forming the reign legend 景興至寶 (Cảnh Hưng Chí Bảo). The characters are rendered in regular script (kaishu) in raised relief against a flat field. A plain raised outer rim borders the coin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain uniface reverse bearing no inscriptions or decorative devices. The surface is flat with a central square perforation enclosed by a raised inner rim and a plain raised outer rim, consistent with standard Vietnamese cast cash coinage of the period. |
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Cảnh Hưng was the reign title of Lê Hiển Tông, who ruled nominally as emperor while the Trịnh lords exercised actual power in the north. This cash was struck under that dyarchic arrangement — the emperor reigned, the Trịnh governed, and the mint answered to the latter. The prolonged issue date reflects not a single sustained production run but a reign that stretched across decades of internal friction, with the southern Nguyễn lords simultaneously striking their own competing cash coinage below the seventeenth parallel.