Vietnamese coin – HCR58862

Obverse

Inscription:

太平聖寶

Design:

Seal script 寶, with mid-length arms, upper components (王 and 牛) forming a continuous lattice of two vertical and three horizontal strokes below shoulders, 貝 (bei) radical of 寶 rounded.

Reverse

Inscription:

None

Design:

Plain, with indistinct raised rims

Information

Period

Vietnamese

Denomination

1 Đồng (一銅)

Material

bronze

Technique

cast

Dating

c. 1540 – c. 1800

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

2.05

Diameter (mm)

21.2

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition collection reference

Kutsuki Masatsuna

Acquisition date

10/5/1922

Source

Indian Institute, Oxford

Acquisition credit

Transferred from the Indian Institute, Oxford, 1922; to them, gifted/bequeathed by Howell Wills.

Transliteration (obverse)

Thái Binh Thánh Bảo

Reference

Hartill GCC : pp. 21, 105, 144, 147, cf Figs 2.61, 2.810 - 2.813, 2.875

Note:

This coin, with its clearly moulded characters and broad, well-defined rims, is quite unlike any of the coins with the legend Thái Binh Thánh Bảo (or Tai Ping sheng bao) illustrated by Hartill (GCC). It differs from these and from all the coins described by Thierry (CMV, CMVS) and on Zeno.ru in having the seal script character 寶 of a distinctive and unique form. I have applied a provisional date range from c. 1540 – c. 1800 to cover the likely maximum time period during which a coin with this legend could have been produced in Vietnam and be likely to have reached the collection of Kutsuki Masatsuna while he was actively studying numismatics. Kutsuki Masatsuna's collection had at least three examples of this coin type: HCR 58854, 58858 and 58862.

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, mritchie, cgallacher