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1 Cash - Thiên Phù Nguyên Bảo, private issue?
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1120-1127 |
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| Value | 1 Cash (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | 天符元寶 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thiên Phù Nguyên Bảo corresponds to the reign era of Lý Nhân Tông, the longest-reigning monarch of the Lý dynasty, who ruled from 1072 to 1127. The "private issue" attribution is a recurring problem with Vietnamese cash coinage of this period — state and unofficial productions are difficult to distinguish, and Toda's classifications, assembled in the late nineteenth century from collector specimens rather than excavation contexts, carry real uncertainty. This piece sits in that grey zone.