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1 Cash - Thiệu Trị Thông Bảo, large type
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1841-1847 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thiệu Trị, the third Nguyễn emperor, reigned for just six years before dying at forty in 1847 — long enough, however, to produce a remarkably consistent coinage administered through the Board of Revenue in Huế. The "large type" designation distinguishes this casting from the reduced module issues struck concurrently, a deliberate two-tier production that was common Nguyễn practice for managing both ceremonial distribution and everyday commerce across the cash economy of Cochinchina and Tonkin.
Vietnamese cash coins of this period were sand-cast rather than struck, which accounts for the variable surface texture that distinguishes them from their Chinese counterparts.