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1 Cash - Trần Công Tân Bảo
| Issuer | Trần Tuân Rebellion |
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| Year | 1516 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse description | Four Chinese characters arranged in cruciform reading order around a central square hole, read top-to-bottom and right-to-left in the traditional manner. The inscription 陳公新寶 (Trần Công Tân Bảo) is rendered in regular script (kaishu), with one character positioned in each cardinal quadrant relative to the central perforation. The characters are boldly cast with broad strokes, set within a plain raised inner rim and an outer rim of similar profile. The field between the characters and rims is flat and unadorned. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Trần Tuân Rebellion of 1516 was one of several simultaneous uprisings that effectively dismembered Lê authority during the catastrophic reign of Lê Tương Dực, when the northern Vietnamese delta descended into competing warlord factions, pretender courts, and peasant revolts. Trần Tuân's movement, operating in the Red River delta region, was significant enough to issue its own coinage — a direct assertion of administrative legitimacy rather than mere military posturing.
Rebel cash issues from this period are among the rarest Vietnamese coins to authenticate, partly because production was brief and partly because victorious Lê forces had obvious incentive to suppress their circulation.