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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Tống Bảo, Regular script, with crescent and dot
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1740-1786 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu) are arranged in the traditional reading order — top, bottom, right, left — around a central square hole: 景 (top), 興 (bottom), 通 (right), 寶 (left), together reading 景興通寶 (Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo). The characters are boldly rendered within a plain inner rim and an outer raised rim. The central square perforation is cleanly struck, consistent with Vietnamese cast cash coinage of the Lê Hiển Tông era. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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Cảnh Hưng was the longest-reigning monarch of the Later Lê dynasty, ruling nominally for nearly half a century while the Trịnh lords exercised actual power in the north. The sheer duration of his reign — 1740 to 1786 — meant cash coins issued under his era name were produced in enormous quantities across multiple casting runs, which is precisely why variety collecting within this series has become its own subspecialty. The crescent and dot marks on this piece served as foundry or batch identifiers, distinguishing one casting from another rather than indicating mint location in any formal administrative sense.