5 Tiền - Thiệu Trị

Thiệu Trị ruled for just six years before dying in 1847, and his coinage reflects a reign too short to produce the volume seen under his father Minh Mạng. The Nguyễn dynasty's cash and ingot-style silver pieces were produced at the Board of Revenue mint in Huế, where output was tightly controlled by imperial decree rather than market demand.

KM#281 is among the scarcer Nguyễn silver issues by surviving population. French colonial monetization after 1862 systematically displaced indigenous Vietnamese silver, and much was melted.