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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 58960 appears to be a large brass copy of this type, with wide rims and the reverse rims distinct, perhaps a private issue made during the time of the Nguyên Lords in the South of Vietnam.
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Thierry (CMV, p. 75, Fig. 1129) illustrates an unofficial brass copy of a Sho Fu Gen Ho Nagasaki Trade Coin, which he attributes to the time of the Nguyên Lords in the South of Vietnam. His coin also has wide rims and the rims on the reverse well defined, similar to HCR 58960 and 58961, although the HCR coins appear to be copying the Chinese Northern Song Xiang Fu yuan bao coin (Hartill CCC, p. 131, Figure 16.52) as its model, rather than the Japanese copy. Thierry suggested a date between the 17th and 18th centuries for his coin, so the same dating has been adopted for this coin.
