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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo, Seal script, with line
| Issuer | Lê Dynasty (Vietnam) |
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| Year | 1740-1786 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Round cast copper cash coin featuring a central square hole surrounded by a plain raised rim on the inner border and a broad outer rim. Four Chinese characters in Seal script (篆書) are arranged in the traditional cruciform reading order — top, bottom, right, left — reading 景興通寶 (Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo). The characters are bold and well-formed within the flat field, with the legend denoting the Cảnh Hưng era of Emperor Lê Hiển Tông (1740–1786) and meaning 'universal currency of the Cảnh Hưng era'. |
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| Obverse lettering | 景 寶 通 興 (Translation: Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo Cảnh Hưng (era of Lê Hiển Tông, 1740-1786) / Universal currency) |
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Cảnh Hưng was the longest-reigning era name of the Later Lê Dynasty, nominally attached to emperor Lê Hiển Tông but exercised in practice by the Trịnh lords who had controlled the northern Vietnamese state since the early seventeenth century. The sheer length of the Cảnh Hưng period — over four decades — produced an extraordinary proliferation of cash types, with the seal-script varieties distinguished from the more common clerical-script issues by a stiffer, more formalized rendering of the characters.
The horizontal line on the reverse is a positional marker used to differentiate among the dozens of concurrent types. Toda's cataloguing remains the primary reference, though attributions between closely related varieties are frequently disputed.