Vietnamese coin – HCR58932

Obverse

Inscription:

聖元通寶

Design:

元 in seal script (Vietnamese style); 寶 in Li script with long arms.

Reverse

Inscription:

None

Design:

Plain, with indistinct inner and outer rims

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)

1.54

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)

Thánh Nguyên Thông Bảo

Reference

Hartill GCC : Page 146, Figure 2.856

Note:

Hartill (GCC, p. 146) included this Thánh Nguyên Thông Bảo coin among his category: ‘Small Copper – Distinct Calligraphy, Group 1. (“An Phap type”)’, with two variants having narrower (Fig. 2.856) or broader (Fig. 2.857) outer rims. HCR 58929-58932 belong to the narrow-rimmed variety. Hartill 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.

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, mritchie, cgallacher