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1 Văn - Gia Hưng
| Issuer | Đàng Trong |
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| Year | 1796 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse featuring a raised inner rim surrounding the central square perforation and a raised outer rim along the coin's edge, with an otherwise completely blank and unadorned field. The casting surface displays a pale, weathered zinc patina typical of late eighteenth-century Vietnamese cash coinage. |
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Đàng Trong — the southern Vietnamese polity nominally under Nguyễn lords — was in its death throes by 1796. The Tây Sơn rebellion had effectively destroyed Nguyễn power in the south years earlier, and this issue dates to a period when legitimate authority over the region was genuinely contested. Zinc cash coins of this type circulated alongside Chinese and older Vietnamese issues in a monetary environment with no reliable enforcement of any single standard.
Barker 86.1 is among the later zinc issues attributed to the Gia Hưng reign title, a period so administratively fragmented that attribution itself remains debated among specialists.