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1 Cash - Đoan Khánh Thông Bảo
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1505-1509 |
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| Thickness | 2.0 mm |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is uniface, displaying only the plain, slightly textured field surrounding the central square perforation, which is framed by a faint raised inner square rim visible in the casting. A raised outer rim encircles the entire surface. No inscriptions, symbols, or decorative devices are present, which is characteristic of Vietnamese cash coinage of this period. |
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Đoan Khánh was the reign title of Lê Tuấn, who seized the Vietnamese throne in 1505 after deposing — and likely murdering — his elder brother Lê Túc Tông, who had himself reigned for under a year. Lê Tuấn's four-year tenure was marked by erratic governance and court instability severe enough that later Vietnamese historians classified him among the dynasty's failed rulers. Cash coinage from reigns this short and turbulent rarely achieved wide circulation before political disruption interrupted minting.
Toda 60 and Barker 38.1 record this type with minor calligraphic variants across the four inscription characters, reflecting the inconsistency typical of Vietnamese cash production under compromised administrative conditions.