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1 Cash - Minh Đức Thông Bảo, zinc
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1788 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Cast zinc cash coin of the Vietnamese Empire, featuring a central square perforation flanked by four Chinese characters in traditional regular script (kaishu), reading clockwise from the top: 明 (Minh), 通 (Thông), 德 (Đức), 寶 (Bảo), forming the legend Minh Đức Thông Bảo. The characters are rendered in a bold, slightly irregular relief consistent with hand-cast production methods of the late eighteenth century. The inner rim surrounding the square hole and the outer rim are both plain and relatively narrow. The fields show the natural patination and surface corrosion typical of zinc alloy cash coins of this period. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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