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1 Cash - Lê Đại Hành; fantasy
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Year | 986-1005 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole surrounded by an inner raised rim. A single Chinese character 黎 (Lê, referencing the Lê dynasty) appears in the field below the central perforation, rendered in regular script (kaishu). The design is contained within a plain raised outer rim. No additional legend or decorative elements are present in the field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse featuring a central square hole flanked by a raised inner rim and a broader raised outer rim. The field between the two rims is smooth and featureless, with no inscription, symbol, or decorative motif of any kind. |
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Toda #4 is catalogued as a fantasy piece — not a coin struck under Lê Hoàn's authority, but a later fabrication attributed to his reign (980–1005) retroactively. Lê Đại Hành ruled as the founding emperor of the Early Lê dynasty after engineering a palace coup against the infant Đinh emperor, and while he did issue cash coins, distinguishing genuine period strikes from the substantial body of Vietnamese fantasy cash remains one of the more contested problems in Southeast Asian numismatics.