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6 Tiền - Bao Dai
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1926-1945 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1926 as a teenager freshly returned from schooling in France, and his coinage reflects the peculiar administrative hybrid that French Indochina had become — nominally imperial Vietnamese, practically colonial. The 6 Tiền denomination in gold was never a circulation piece in any conventional sense; it functioned within a tributary and ceremonial economy that the French tolerated because it cost them nothing to permit.
Bảo Đại abdicated in August 1945 under Việt Minh pressure, handing his seal and sword to Hồ Chí Minh's representatives — effectively ending the issuing authority behind this coinage permanently.