1 Cash - Cảnh Hưng Trọng Bảo

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.