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1 Cash - Vĩnh Thiên Thông Bảo

Issuer Lê Nga Rebellion
Year 1420
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Value 1 Cash
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Edge Plain
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Mintage 1420: ND (1420)
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The Lê Nga Rebellion was one of several regional uprisings that erupted in the early 15th century during the Ming occupation of Đại Việt, a period when Chinese administrators systematically suppressed Vietnamese coinage and imposed their own monetary system. Rebel factions that controlled even temporary territorial footholds issued their own cash coins as assertions of independent authority — practical instruments of exchange, yes, but also political signals directed at the occupied population.

The Barker plate reference places this among a small, documented group. Rebellion-era issues from this occupation period are routinely confused with contemporaneous Ming provincial castings.

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