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1 Cash - Tự Đức Thông Bảo, pattern, copper
| Issuer | French Cochinchina |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Weight | 3.85 g |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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French Cochinchina seized the southern provinces of Vietnam in stages between 1859 and 1867, and the colonial administration almost immediately faced a practical problem: the existing cash coin economy ran on Vietnamese-cast zinc and copper pieces with square holes, and the local population refused French-issued substitutes. This 1870 pattern was part of an early attempt to produce a colonial cash coin compatible with that system — square-holed, familiar in form — without success. It never entered circulation. The type is known in only a handful of examples, all presumed struck at Paris as presentation or approval pieces.