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1 Cash - Chieu Thống Thông Bảo, Trung
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1787-1788 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Cast copper cash coin with a central square perforation flanked by four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu), arranged in cruciform fashion around the void. The legend reads 昭統通寶 (Chiêu Thống Thông Bảo), with 昭 (Chiêu) at the top, 統 (Thống) at the bottom, 通 (Thông) to the right, and 寶 (Bảo) to the left. The characters are rendered in raised relief against a flat, unadorned field. The coin is bordered by a plain raised inner rim surrounding the square hole and a plain outer rim. The surface shows typical patination consistent with cast Vietnamese cash coinage of the late Lê dynasty period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chiêu Thống was the last emperor of the Lê dynasty, installed in 1786 as a puppet after Nguyễn Huệ's Tây Sơn forces swept through Hanoi. His reign lasted barely two years before he fled to Qing China to beg for military intervention — which came, catastrophically, in the form of a 200,000-strong invasion that Nguyễn Huệ destroyed at the Battle of Đống Đa in 1789. Chiêu Thống died in exile in Beijing in 1793, never recovering his throne.
Cash coins bearing his era name are among the shorter-reigned Vietnamese issues and saw minimal circulation before the dynasty collapsed entirely.