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Tominaga Masayoshi’s book ‘Anasen Nyumon: Terui Senko (Annam Unofficial Coins), illustrates 15 different coins with round holes and round inner rims, representing 10 different coin inscriptions. Tominaga (pp. 309-310) included these in a section of “Round Hole Hand” (円穿手) coins. Most, but not all of these coins have inscriptions which appear to be copied (with variations) from coins belonging to Hartill’s (GCC, pp. 144-146) ‘Small Copper – Distinct Calligraphy, Group 1. (“An Phap type”)’. There is no clear information as to where or when they were produced. However there is a consensus that they must have been produced in the 18th or 19th century. HCR58954 bears the closest resemblance to Tominaga Masayoshi’s Figure 7.
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Thierry (CMV, pp. 74-77)) suggested that these round hole coins date from the 18th century and that CMV #1140 was produced in southern Vietnam. However, round-holed coins are absent from the comprehensive collection of Kutsuki Masatsuna (1750-1802) who was actively collecting and acquiring older collections between 1770 and 1800. By contrast several of these coins are present in the much smaller collection of Christopher Thomas Gardner (1842-1914), actively collecting in China in the second half of the 19th century. This is suggestive of a 19th century date of production.
