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1 Cash - Thái Đức Thông Bảo, zinc
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1778-1788 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Reverse description | Plain uniface reverse with a raised outer rim and a raised inner rim surrounding the central square perforation. The field is entirely blank with no inscriptions, symbols, or decorative elements, consistent with the standard uniface casting practice of Vietnamese cash coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thái Đức was the reign title of Nguyễn Nhạc, the eldest of the three Tây Sơn brothers whose rebellion dismantled Nguyễn lord control over southern Vietnam in the 1770s. Zinc cash — as opposed to the more conventional cast bronze — points to a regime operating under severe resource constraints, improvising with available metal rather than adhering to traditional alloy practice. The Tây Sơn mint infrastructure was never centralized in the way the later Nguyễn dynasty would establish at Huế.
The absence of a Barker reference number reflects how poorly documented Tây Sơn-era coinage remains in Western scholarship.