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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo, Công
| Issuer | Imperial Vietnamese Mint (Lê Dynasty) |
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| Year | 1740-1786 |
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| Weight | 3.60 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 景興通寶 |
| Reverse description | Central square perforation flanked by a single Chinese character 工 (Công, denoting the Ministry of Works) positioned to the right of the hole, cast in raised relief in regular script. The remaining field is plain and unadorned, with a raised outer rim encircling the coin. The sparse reverse design is consistent with standard Lê Dynasty cash coinage practice, where a single mint or administrative identifier character distinguishes issues from different issuing ministries or workshops. |
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Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo coinage spans the extraordinarily long reign of Emperor Lê Hiển Tông, who ruled nominally from 1740 to 1786 while real power rested with the Trịnh lords. The sheer volume and variety of cash types issued under this reign reflects that fractured authority — multiple mints operated under Trịnh supervision, producing dozens of reverse mark varieties as a rudimentary means of mint or batch identification. The "Công" reverse mark on this piece is one such designation, catalogued distinctly by both Barker and Toda precisely because these varieties were systematically differentiated at issue.