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1 Lang - Thiệu Trị
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1841-1847 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays a large central square hole framed by a raised square rim, characteristic of Vietnamese cash-style coinage. Surrounding the central aperture, the field is filled with a twenty-character Chinese-script inscription arranged in vertical columns reading outward from the central hole. The characters are deeply incuse-cast in a bold, formal calligraphic style and convey a poetic imperial verse extolling the transmutation of precious minerals into pure gold and the enduring transmission of virtue across ten thousand generations. The legends occupy the entirety of the broad flat field, with no figurative imagery present on this face. The coin's wide, plain outer rim frames the inscription field without additional ornamentation. |
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| Obverse lettering | 玦瑀千年化溫盈錫萬世傳勳彰德所寶彭有賢者 |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the principal pictorial design of the coin, featuring a celestial scene in the upper portion with the sun and moon depicted beneath stylised clouds rendered in low relief. The lower portion of the field portrays three mountains or peaks rising above a conventionalised sea, with the trees of longevity — likely pine or lingzhi — depicted upon the slopes, alluding to Daoist symbolism of immortality and imperial virtue. The central square hole is framed by a raised square boss, mirroring the obverse construction. The overall composition is rendered in a flat, incuse-cast style consistent with Vietnamese imperial gold coinage of the Nguyễn dynasty. |
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