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7 Tiền - Minh Mạng Thông Bảo, with year
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1832-1835 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Minh Mạng's reign saw an aggressive centralization of Vietnamese coinage, and the 7 tiền denomination sits near the top of a deliberately tiered silver series the emperor formalized in the early 1830s. The "with year" varieties — KM#194 and KM#195 carrying cyclical date inscriptions — were struck across a narrow four-year window, distinguishing them from the undated issues and making precise attribution dependent on reading the can-chi characters correctly.
Minh Mạng died in 1841, and the monetary framework he built was progressively disrupted by his successors and, eventually, French colonial intervention.