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1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Trọng Bảo
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1740-1776 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central square perforation surrounded by four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu), arranged in cruciform reading order: top to bottom and right to left. The legend 景興重寶 (Cảnh Hưng Trọng Bảo) occupies the four quadrants of the inner field, each character positioned between the central hole and the plain raised rim. The characters are boldly cast in relief with thick strokes characteristic of Vietnamese Lê dynasty cash coinage, set against a flat, unadorned field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cảnh Hưng was the reign title of Lê Hiển Tông, who ruled for over half a century — the longest reign of any Lê dynasty emperor — while real power remained firmly with the Trịnh lords in the north. These cash coins were produced under Trịnh authority in all but name, part of an administrative fiction that preserved the Lê emperors as symbolic figureheads for nearly two hundred years. The Trịnh mints issued a bewildering variety of Cảnh Hưng-era cash types, which is why Barker and Toda catalog them across dozens of distinct reference numbers.