Reference
Barker : pp 204-205, cf Figs 87.1 – 87.5
Note:
Barker (p. 204-205, Figs 87.1 – 87.5) shows five examples of Tường Phù Nguyên Bảo coins which all have 符with the forming upwardly-pointing arrow-heads. Barker attributes those coins to the Nguyên Lords in the South of Vietnam. However In HCR 58958 the two vertical strokes of 符do not have this arrow-head appearance.
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Note:
Hartill (GCC, p. 110, Figs 2.196-2.198) illustrates three examples of an unattributed Vietnamese Tường Phù Nguyên Bảo coin among his category: ‘Large Copper Resembling Song Dynasty Chinese Coins’. This variety has the 符without the arrow-head appearance of the vertical strokes shown in Hartill’s fig. 2.195 and in all the Barker figures 87.1 – 87.5. But the form of the 元 is tending towards a stylized grass script with the legs converging acutely at the top and a dot rather than a bar above. The inscription is probably copied from the Northern Song Xiang Fu yuan bao coin (Hartill CCC, p. 131, Figure 16.52), rather than from a Japanese Sho Fu Gen Ho Nagasaki Trade Coin (Hartill, EJC, p. 37). HCR 58958 appears to be of this type.
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Note:
Thierry (CMV, p. 75, Fig. 1129) illustrates what he regards as a Vietnamese copy of a Japanese Sho Fu Gen Po Nagasaki Trade coin. This is the same type as Hartill’s GCC Fig 2.195, but rather different from HCR 58958 which is more likely a copy of the Xiang Fu yuan bao coin of Northern Song Emperor Zhen Zong (998-1002) (see Hartill, CCC, p. 131, Figure 16.55).
