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Unidentified Vietnamese coins from 1600 and later edit

At various times many rebel leaders proclaimed themselves as Lords (), Kings (), and Emperors (), and had produced their own coinage with their reign names and titles on them, but as their rebellions would prove unsuccessful or brief their reigns and titles would go unrecorded in Vietnamese history, therefore coins produced by their rebellions cannot easily be classified. Coins were also often privately cast and these coins were sometimes of high quality or well-made imitations of imperial coinage, though often they would bear the same inscriptions as already circulating coinage, sometimes they would have "newly invented" inscriptions.[1] The Nguyễn lords that ruled over Southern Vietnam had also produced their own coinage at various times as they were the de facto kings of the South, but as their rule wasn't official, it is currently unknown what coins can be attributed to which Nguyễn lord. Though since Edouard Toda has made his list in 1882 several of the coins that he had described as "originating from the Quảng Nam province" have been ascribed to the Nguyễn lords that the numismatists of his time couldn't identify. During the rule of the Nguyễn lords many foundries for private mintage were also opened and many of these coins bear the same inscriptions as government cast coinage or even bear newly invented inscriptions making it hard to attribute these coins.[2]

List of (unidentified (cash)) coins edit

The following list contains Vietnamese cash coins whose origins cannot be (currently) established:

Inscription
(chữ Quốc ngữ)
Inscription
(Hán tự)
Notes Toda image Image
Thiệu Thánh Nguyên Bảo 紹聖元寶
Minh Định Tống Bảo 明定宋寶 "Tống Bảo" () is written in Seal script.
Cảnh Nguyên Thông Bảo 景元通寶 Appears in both Regular script, and Seal script.
Thánh Tống Nguyên Bảo 聖宋元寶
Càn Nguyên Thông Bảo 乾元通寶 Produced in the upper parts of Northern Vietnam.
Phúc Bình Nguyên Bảo 福平元寶 Written in Seal script.
Thiệt Quý Thông Bảo 邵癸通寶 Written in both Running hand and Seal script.
Dương Nguyên Thông Bảo 洋元通寶 Appear in multiple sizes.
Thiệu Phù Nguyên Bảo 紹符元寶 Written in Seal script.
Nguyên Phù Thông Bảo 元符通寶 Written in Seal script.
Đại Cung Thánh Bảo 大工聖寶
Đại Hòa Thông Bảo 大和通寶 The reverse is rimless.
Cảnh Thì Thông Bảo 景底通寶 The "" closely resembles a ""
Thiên Nguyên Thông Bảo 天元通寶 A variant exists where the "" is written in Seal script.
Nguyên Trị Thông Bảo 元治通寶 The characters "" and "" are written in Seal script.
Hoàng Hi Tống Bảo 皇熙宋寶
Khai Thánh Nguyên Bảo 開聖元寶
Thiệu Thánh Thông Bảo 紹聖通寶
Thiệu Thánh Bình Bảo 紹聖平寶 the reverse is rimless.
Thiệu Tống Nguyên Bảo 紹宋元寶
Tường Tống Thông Bảo 祥宋通寶
Tường Thánh Thông Bảo 祥聖通寶
Hi Tống Nguyên Bảo 熙宋元寶
Ứng Cảm Nguyên Bảo 應感元寶
Thống Phù Nguyên Bảo 統符元寶
Hi Thiệu Nguyên Bảo 熙紹元寶
Chính Nguyên Thông Bảo 正元通寶 Variants exist with rimmed and rimless reverses, as well as one where there's a dot or a crescent on the reverse.
Thiên Đức Nguyên Bảo 天德元寶
Hoàng Ân Thông Bảo 皇恩通寶
Thái Thánh Thông Bảo 太聖通寶
Đại Thánh Thông Bảo 大聖通寶
Chánh Hòa Thông Bảo 政和通寶 A variant exists where there's a crescent a dot on the reverse, and another one with only the crescent.
Thánh Cung Tứ Bảo[a] 聖宮慈寶 None
Thánh Trần Thông Bảo 聖陳通寶 None
Đại Định Thông Bảo 大定通寶 None
Chính Long Nguyên Bảo 正隆元寶 None
Hi Nguyên Thông Bảo 熙元通寶 None
Cảnh Nguyên Thông Bảo 景元通寶 None
Tống Nguyên Thông Bảo 宋元通寶 None
Thiên Thánh Nguyên Bảo 天聖元寶 None
Thánh Nguyên Thông Bảo 聖元通寶 None
Chính Pháp Thông Bảo 正法通寶 None
Tây Dương Phù Bảo 西洋符寶 None
Tây Dương Bình Bảo 西洋平寶 None
An Pháp Nguyên Bảo 安法元寶 Most often attributed to Lê Lợi (黎利).[3][4]
Bình Nam Thông Bảo 平南通寶 Often attributed to the Nguyễn lords (阮主). None

Notes edit

  1. ^ The coins from this part of the list and below are from Dr. R. Allan Barker (2004) while the coins above are from Edouard Toda (1882).

References edit

  1. ^ "Vietnam (Annam) Privately Minted Coins". Luke Roberts at the Department of History - University of California at Santa Barbara. 24 October 2003. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. ^ Charms.ru Coincidences of Vietnam and China cash coins legends. Francis Ng, People's Republic of China, Thuan D. Luc, United States, and Vladimir A. Belyaev, Russia March-June, 1999 Retrieved: 17 June 2017.
  3. ^ Charms.ru WHO CAST THE AN PHAP NGUYEN BAO COIN? [1 .] Luc Duc Thuan Retrieved: 24 June 2017.
  4. ^ Lacroix Désiré. Numismatique Annamite - Publications de l'École Francaise d'Extrême-Orient, Saigon 1900

See also edit

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