Vietnamese coin – HCR58857

Obverse

Inscription:

太平聖寶

Design:

Regular script, wide rims

Reverse

Inscription:

None

Design:

Plain, flat, smooth (worn?)

Information

Period

Vietnamese

Denomination

1 Đồng (tiền gián)

Material

brass

Technique

cast

Dating

c. 1600 - c. 1800

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

1.38

Diameter (mm)

20.8

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 Thánh Bảo

Reference

Hartill GCC : Page 147, Figure 2.875

Note:

Hartill includes this coin type in his unattributed private issue category: ‘Small copper – Distinct Calligraphy. Group 2. (“Protruding Bảo Type”).

Reference

Thierry CMVS : page 65, Figure 334.

Note:

Thierry (CMVS, p. 65) illustrates this regular script short-arm bao small coin which he describes as a hybrid of a Shao Sheng yuan bao (read clockwise) and a Yuan Fu tong bao (read crosswise TBRL). Thierry includes this coin type among a small group of small coins of uncertain attribution which forms part of his broader category of private issues of the 17th to 18th centuries. A provisional date range of c. 1600 – c. 1800 has therefore been applied to HCR 58856 and 58857. Thierry describes his coin as bronze, but the HCR coins look more like brass.

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, mritchie, cgallacher