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1 Cash - Thiệu Bình Thông Bảo
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1434-1439 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse showing a smooth, undecorated field surrounding the central square perforation, typical of Vietnamese cast cash coinage of the Later Lê dynasty. The surface is flat and featureless between the inner rim of the square hole and the raised outer rim. Heavy green and blue-green patination covers the entire reverse, evidence of long-term copper oxidation. No inscriptions, symbols, or mint marks are present. |
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Thiệu Bình was the reign title of Lê Thái Tông, second emperor of the Later Lê dynasty, who came to the throne at roughly ten years old following the death of his father Lê Lợi — the founder who had spent a decade expelling Ming Chinese occupiers. The cash coinage issued under his reign title reflects the dynasty's early effort to establish an independent monetary system after a period when Chinese administrative currency had dominated the north.
Toda's cataloguing of this type in the late nineteenth century remains a primary reference; Barker's numbering follows a later reclassification of the series.