Vietnamese coin – HCR58850

Obverse

Inscription:

太平通寶

Design:

Regular script

Reverse

Inscription:

None

Design:

Plain, flat, smooth (worn?)

Information

Period

Vietnamese

Denomination

1 Đồng (tiền gián)

Material

bronze

Technique

cast

Dating

c. 1600 - c. 1700

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

1.86

Diameter (mm)

20.2

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition collection reference

Christopher Thomas Gardner (1842-1914) collection

Acquisition date

29/10/1947

Source

Captain Roger Laird

Acquisition credit

Presented by Captain Roger Laird, 1947.

Transliteration (obverse)

Thái Binh Thông Bảo

Reference

Hartill GCC : Page 152, Figure 2.1002

Note:

Hartill illustrates a specimen from the Pirey collection (Joyaux, 2011) which matches HCR 58850 in having the left foot of 寶 shorter than the right and directed more sideways than downwards. Hartill includes this type in his final category of unattributed Vietnamese coins: “Small copper - Others”.

Reference

Thierry CMV : Page 51-52, Plate 4, Figure 577.

Note:

Thierry (CMV, pages 51, 77), having noted the impossibility of separating out three different series of Thái Binh Thông Bảo coins cast privately under the Mạc at Cao Bằng (莫氏(莫家)), under Later Lê Restored (後黎), or under the Nguyễn Lords (阮氏(阮家)), still attributes these smallest Thái Binh Thông Bảo coins (< 21 mm) to the period of the Mạc at Cao Bằng (莫氏(莫家)) and accords them a 17th century date.

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, mritchie, cgallacher