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1 Văn - Tường Nguyên imitation coinage
| Issuer | Empire of Vietnam |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain flat field surrounding a central square perforation, entirely devoid of inscriptions or decorative devices. The surface displays a mottled brown and green patina with minor surface irregularities characteristic of cast copper cash coinage. A plain raised rim borders the coin's periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND |
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Tường Nguyên ("Auspicious Origin") cash coins were struck under Gia Long as he consolidated the newly unified Vietnamese state after 1802, but the designation "imitation coinage" here signals something more specific — these are copies produced outside direct imperial mint authority, a practice tolerated, even tacitly encouraged, when official supply failed to meet the demands of a monetarily fragmented country still absorbing decades of Tây Sơn disruption. Toda's cataloguing of this type reflects how porous the boundary between sanctioned and unsanctioned production was in early Nguyễn-era bronze coinage.