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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo, Trung
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1740-1786 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Cast round coin with a central square hole, as typical of Vietnamese cash coinage of the Lê dynasty. Four Chinese ideograms are arranged in cruciform order around the central aperture, reading top-to-bottom and right-to-left: 景興通寶 (Cảnh Hưng Thông Bảo). The characters are rendered in regular script (kaishu) within a plain raised rim, with the field showing the characteristic rough texture of a cast bronze piece. The inscription denotes the Cảnh Hưng reign era of Emperor Lê Hiển Tông and the concept of universal currency. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cảnh Hưng was the reign title of Lê Hiển Tông, who ruled nominally for 46 years while actual power remained with the Trịnh lords in the north. The coinage issued under this title is consequently vast and extraordinarily varied — Barker catalogues well over a hundred distinct types bearing the Cảnh Hưng name, minted across decades of political fragmentation and intermittent warfare with the southern Nguyễn lords. The "Trung" reverse inscription on this piece denotes a specific emission within that sprawling series, likely tied to administrative or fiscal distinctions that minting authorities used to track output across multiple furnaces.