1 Tiền - Thiệu Trị

Thiệu Trị reigned for just six years before dying in 1847, making his gold issues among the shorter-lived series of the Nguyễn dynasty. The tiền denomination was part of a traditional Vietnamese weight-based currency system inherited from Chinese monetary practice, where gold pieces functioned more as stores of value and official presentation currency than as everyday trade coin. Many survived in palace and temple hoards precisely because they rarely changed hands commercially.

Fr#20 attribution places this squarely in Friedberg's documentation of French Indochina-area gold — a cataloging lineage that reflects French colonial numismatic interest rather than Vietnamese archival sources.