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1 Cash - Cảnh Thịnh Thông Bảo, with line
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1792-1801 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole surrounded by four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu), arranged in the traditional cruciform reading order: top to bottom, right to left. The characters 景盛通寶 (Cảnh Thịnh Thông Bảo) fill the four quadrants of the field, each positioned adjacent to one side of the central perforation. The legend translates as 'Cảnh Thịnh [era] circulating treasure,' referencing the reign period of the Tây Sơn emperor Cảnh Thịnh. The coin is cast with a plain, unadorned rim, consistent with Vietnamese cast coinage of the late 18th century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cảnh Thịnh was the reign title of Nguyễn Quang Toản, the last ruler of the Tây Sơn dynasty, who assumed the throne as a child following the death of his father Nguyễn Huệ in 1792. The dynasty had unified much of Vietnam through military force in the 1780s but spent its final decade in losing conflict against Nguyễn Ánh, who extinguished the Tây Sơn entirely by 1802 and refounded the empire under the Gia Long reign title. Cash coins from this terminal period were struck under increasingly strained conditions.
The line variety catalogued by Toda but absent from Barker's reference suggests this is among the less-documented die variants of the series.