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1 Cash - Minh Đức Thông Bảo
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1788 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Plain cast reverse featuring a central square perforation with raised inner and outer rims. Two Chinese characters in grass script (caoshu) are positioned in the horizontal axis flanking the central hole, reading right-to-left: 萬 (Vạn) to the right and 年 (Niên/Tuế) to the left, together forming the auspicious phrase 萬年 (Vạn Niên, meaning '10,000 Years'). The field is otherwise bare, displaying the characteristic patinated surface of a cast Vietnamese copper cash. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Minh Đức Thông Bảo cash coins were issued under the Tây Sơn regime, which briefly unified much of Vietnam after overthrowing the Nguyễn lords in the south and routing a 200,000-strong Qing Chinese invasion force at the Battle of Đống Đa in 1789. The Tây Sơn period produced a fragmented coinage across multiple competing authorities, and attribution of individual cash types to specific rulers or dates remains contested among specialists — Barker's classifications rely heavily on inscription variants rather than contemporary documentation.