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1 Cash - Gia Long Thông Bảo, large size
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1802-1820 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
| Obverse lettering | 嘉隆通寶 (Translation: Gia Long Thông Bảo — Gia Long [Emperor] / Universal currency) |
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Gia Long, born Nguyễn Ánh, spent nearly two decades fighting to reunify Vietnam before finally defeating the Tây Sơn dynasty in 1802 with considerable assistance from French missionary Pigneau de Béhaine's recruited volunteers. The cash coinage issued under his reign name was among the first acts of a unified imperial administration stretching from the Chinese border to the Gulf of Thailand — the first time that territory had been governed as a single entity.
The large-size variant documented under Barker 99.1 is distinguished from the more common small-size issue by die geometry rather than any single obvious feature, and misattribution between the two is frequent in general-market listings.