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1 Cash - Quang Trung Thông Bảo, with dot
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1788-1792 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole surrounded by a plain inner rim. Four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu) arranged in cruciform reading order around the central perforation: 光 (Quang) at top, 寶 (Bảo) at right, 通 (Thông) at bottom, and 中 (Trung) at left, forming the legend Quang Trung Thông Bảo. A small dot appears in one of the quadrants of the field, serving as a mint or batch distinguishing mark. The characters are cast in low relief with a plain, unadorned field typical of Vietnamese cash coinage of the late eighteenth century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1788-1792) |
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Quang Trung — born Nguyễn Huệ — ruled for less than four years before dying in 1792, reportedly of illness, though Vietnamese chronicles hint at exhaustion from nearly continuous military campaigning. His Tây Sơn dynasty had just repelled a 200,000-strong Qing Chinese invasion at the Battle of Đống Đa in 1789, one of the most decisive Vietnamese military victories on record. Cash coinage issued under his reign is consequently sparse; the regime was simply too occupied with consolidating power and fighting wars to establish a mature monetary infrastructure.
The dot variety distinguishing this piece from the undotted KM#141 is noted by Toda but absent from Barker's catalog — a small but meaningful gap that has never been fully resolved in the literature.