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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Thái Bảo
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1740-1776 |
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| Currency | Cash (970-1868) |
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| Obverse description | Four Chinese characters arranged in cruciform reading order around a central square hole: 景 (top), 太 (right), 寶 (left), 興 (bottom), composing the legend 景興太寶 (Cảnh Hưng Thái Bảo, meaning 'Great Currency of the Cảnh Hưng era'). The characters are rendered in regular script (kaishu) within a plain circular border. The square perforation at center is flanked symmetrically by the four ideograms in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 景 寶 太 興 (Translation: Cảnh Hưng Thái Bảo — Cảnh Hưng era of Lê Hiển Tông, 1740-1786 / Great currency) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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