Vietnamese coin – HCR58895

Obverse

Inscription:

治平聖寶

Design:

治 in running script; 寶 in Li script, with long arms; 元 in Vietnamese seal script.

Reverse

Inscription:

None

Design:

Plain, raised rim

Information

Period

Vietnamese

Denomination

1 Đồng (tiền gián)

Material

bronze

Technique

cast

Dating

c. 1540 - c. 1590

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

1.65

Diameter (mm)

21.6

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition date

1955

Source

V & A

Acquisition credit

Presented by the Victorian and Albert Museum, 1955.

Transliteration (obverse)

Trị Binh Nguyên Bảo (clockwise)

Reference

Hartill GCC : Page 145, Figure 2.832

Note:

Hartill (GCC, page 145, Figures 2.832) illustrates one example of this inscription with cursive 治. Thierry (CMVS, fig. 133) illustrates a similar angular 紹example. HCR 58895 is of this type. Hartill included coins of this inscription among his category: ‘Small Copper – Distinct Calligraphy, Group 1. (“An Phap type”)’. Hartill has reviewed the various hypotheses for the chronology of “An Phap-type” coins advanced by Thierry and others. He proposes (GCC, p. 143) that they were manufactured in North Vietnam under the Mạc between 1540 and 1590. This provisional dating has been followed here.

Reference

Thierry CMV : Page 39 Figure 106

Note:

Thierry (CMV, p. 39 Figure 106 and CMVS, p.46) illustrated this coin type which he identified as a copy of the Northern Song Dynasty Zhi Ping yuan bao coin of Emperor Ying Zong (1068-1085).

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, mritchie