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1 Cash - Quang Thuận Thông Bảo
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1460-1469 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Cast bronze cash coin featuring four Chinese characters arranged in cruciform fashion around a central square hole, read in the traditional sequence of top, bottom, right, left. The characters 光順通寶 (Quang Thuận Thông Bảo) are rendered in regular script (kaishu), each occupying one quadrant of the coin's field. The legends are bold and slightly raised in relief against a flat field, with the characters exhibiting the angular, structured style characteristic of Lê dynasty Vietnamese cast coinage. The rim is plain and slightly raised. |
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| Obverse lettering | 光順通寶 (Translation: Quang Thuận Thông Bảo — Quang Thuận era of Lê Thánh Tông, 1460-1469 / Universal currency) |
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Quang Thuận was the reign title of Lê Thánh Tông, who came to power in 1460 after deposing his own brother Lê Nghi Dân in a palace coup backed by court officials. His reign would become the administrative and cultural high point of the Lê dynasty — the legal code promulgated during this period, the Hồng Đức Code, restructured Vietnamese society along Confucian lines for centuries. Cash coinage of this reign circulated alongside an economy still heavily dependent on Chinese imports, and the Lê mint output supplemented rather than replaced earlier Song and Ming coins still passing in the markets.