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1 Văn - Thiên Tư Private issue?
| Issuer | Lý Dynasty |
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| Year | 1186-1201 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse description | Cast copper cash coin featuring a central square hole surrounded by a plain inner rim. The obverse legend reads 天嗣通寶 (Thiên Tư Thông Bảo) arranged in the traditional four-character format: top, bottom, right, left around the central perforation. The characters are rendered in regular script (kaishu) with moderate relief against a flat field. The outer rim is raised and well-defined, consistent with Lý Dynasty casting conventions. |
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| Obverse lettering | 天 嗣 通 寶 |
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The Thiên Tư Thông Bảo coinage belongs to the reign of Lý Cao Tông, who ascended the throne as a child and presided over a court increasingly destabilized by aristocratic factionalism and peasant uprisings. Private casting of cash coins was a persistent problem throughout the Lý dynasty, and the question of whether this issue originated from an authorized mint or a private foundry remains unresolved among specialists — Toda catalogued it with deliberate ambiguity.