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1 Cash - Quang Trung Thông Bảo, with crescent
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1788-1792 |
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| Weight | 2.67 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1788-1792) - Toda#193: Four crescents facing inward - ND (1788-1792) - Toda#194: Four crescents facing outward - ND (1788-1792) - Toda#195: Two crescents (above and below) - |
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Quang Trung — born Nguyễn Huệ — seized the throne in 1788 after leading the Tây Sơn rebellion to one of its defining military victories: a lightning campaign against a Qing Chinese occupying force of some 200,000 troops that was routed in less than a week during the Tết offensive of 1789. His reign was too short for an extensive monetary program, and cash coins bearing his era name were struck across a relatively compressed window before his death in 1792 at approximately 40 years old.
The crescent reverse mark distinguishes this variety from the plain-reverse issues and likely indicates a specific furnace or casting supervisory unit — a common administrative practice in Vietnamese and Chinese cash production of the period.