Vietnamese coin – HCR58971

Obverse

Inscription:

聖宋元寳 (read clockwise)

Design:

Seal script, apart from 聖 and long-arm 寳 in Li script

Reverse

Inscription:

None

Design:

Plain, flat but uneven

Information

Period

Vietnamese

Denomination

1 Đồng (tiền gián)

Material

bronze, zinc

Technique

cast

Dating

c. 1550 – c. 1790

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

1.91

Diameter (mm)

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 Tống Nguyên Bảo / Sheng Song Yuan Bao

Reference

Hartill GCC : GCC, Page 103, cf Fig. 2.43

Note:

HCR 58970 and 58971 are crude copies of a seal script Sheng Song Yuan Bao coin of Emperor Hui Zong (1101-1125) (cf Hartill CCC, p. 148, Figs 16.354-360). Hartill (GCC, p. 103) has provided data from the Zeno database showing that these coins are typically composed of about 50% zinc. Hartill assigns them to his category of ‘Large Copper – Distinct Calligraphy. Group 4. (“Zinc Alloy”)’. Given the use of zinc and the appearance coins of this type in the Kokon Senka Kagami of 1798, a conservative date range of c. 1550 – c. 1790 has provisionally been assigned to this coin.

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, mritchie, cgallacher