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1 Cash - Thái Đức Thông Bảo, with Vạn Tuế
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1778-1788 |
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| Currency | Cash (970-1868) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Central square hole flanked by two Chinese characters rendered in grass script (caoshu): 萬 (vạn, ten thousand) to the right and 年 (tuế/niên, years) to the left, together reading 萬年 (Vạn Niên / Vạn Tuế), an auspicious phrase meaning 'Ten Thousand Years.' The reverse field is otherwise plain, with the loosely rendered cursive strokes characteristic of Vietnamese cast cash of the Tây Sơn period visible on both sides of the perforation. |
| Reverse script | Chinese (traditional, grass script) |
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