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1 Cash - Ninh Dân Thông Bảo
| Issuer | Ninh Xá Rebellion |
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| Year | 1739-1741 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Cast bronze cash coin displaying four Chinese characters arranged in the traditional cross-reading order — top, bottom, right, left — surrounding a central square perforation. The four-character inscription reads 寧民通寶 (Ninh Dân Thông Bảo), rendered in regular script (kaishu). The characters are boldly raised in relief within a plain inner rim, with a raised outer rim framing the coin's circumference. The surfaces exhibit characteristic casting texture consistent with Vietnamese rebel-issue cash coinage of the early 18th century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Ninh Xá Rebellion was a brief but violent uprising in northern Vietnam led by Nguyễn Danh Phương, one of several regional warlords who exploited the chronic weakness of the Lê dynasty under Trịnh lord domination. Issuing coinage was a deliberate assertion of independent authority — a political act as much as an economic one. The rebellion was crushed by Trịnh forces by 1741, making the window for this coin's production exceptionally narrow.
Survivors are rare precisely because the issuing authority was extinguished so quickly.