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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 7349847, member: 102103&quot;]Another one.&nbsp; I was going to give up on this one as a fantasy type, until I realized it&#039;s not Chinese but from Vietnam.&nbsp; I had misread the top character as &quot;元&quot; (yuan) instead of &quot;光&quot; (guang) at first, and couldn&#039;t find it anywhere.&nbsp; In my defense, it&#039;s pretty hard to make out the details of characters when they are worn or corroded.&nbsp; At my age, a good high-resolution photo can reveal a lot of detail which I cannot make out by eye.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hartill book, &quot;Cast Chinese Coins&quot; which I recently bought has really proved its value here.&nbsp; The finding guide lets you look up a coin by the first two characters, so I can quickly verify whether a coin even exists.&nbsp; It has the more common Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese types as well.&nbsp; If one is not sure of a character, one can scan through all the likely candidates with a similar shape and identify likely candidates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway: Vietnam, <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces97925.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces97925.html" rel="nofollow">Quang Trung</a>, Tây Sơn Dynasty, 1786-91, 1 cash</p><p>Obverse:&nbsp; 光中寶通&nbsp; Reverse:&nbsp; Blank, 22 mm, 2.1 g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1281933[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1281934[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1281935[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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