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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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| Currency | Cash (970-1868) |
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| Obverse description | Cast copper cash coin centred on a square perforation surrounded by a raised inner square rim. Four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu) are disposed in the four cardinal positions around the central square hole, read in the traditional top-to-bottom, right-to-left sequence: 端 (top), 通 (right), 慶 (bottom), 寶 (left), forming the four-character reign legend 端慶通寶 (Đoan Khánh Thông Bảo). The bold, well-defined characters stand in high relief against the flat field, and the coin is bounded by a raised outer rim consistent with Vietnamese Lê-dynasty casting conventions of the early sixteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.