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7 Tiền - Thiệu Trị
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint, Huế |
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| Year | 1841-1847 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#293 |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | A boldly rendered imperial dragon occupies the full field, depicted in frontal aspect with its sinuous scaled body coiling around the central composition. The dragon's fierce visage faces the viewer directly, with bulging eyes, prominent horns, and an open maw, surrounded by stylized cloud and flame motifs. Two large Chữ Hán characters flank the design: 龍 (Long, dragon) at the top and 雲 (Vân, cloud) at the bottom, with additional characters 功英 (Công Anh) visible to the right and 金 (Kim) to the left, denoting the denomination or quality designation. The high-relief carving is characteristic of the refined court artistry of the Nguyễn dynasty under Emperor Thiệu Trị. |
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Thiệu Trị, the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, reigned for just seven years before dying in 1847 — short enough that his silver issues are structurally scarcer than those of his father Minh Mạng. The Board of Revenue Mint at Huế operated under strict imperial oversight, with denominations directly tied to the Vietnamese monetary unit system that Gia Long had formalized decades earlier. The 7 tiền denomination sat at a specific weight fraction of the lạng, making it a deliberate accounting unit rather than an arbitrary struck value.