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<p>[QUOTE="AnYangMan, post: 2877743, member: 87271"]Nice one, Loong siew! ‘Official’ Vietnamese cash is quite an interesting area! I can only post a couple of later, unofficial, cash coins, most likely cast in Vietnam. They all imitate Chinese cash coins, An Phap style (you mentioned these Chinese imitations in your write-up, I believe), but they are much, much smaller (around 21 mm) than the coins they imitate. Dating these is problematic, as is accurately determining the country of origin. Note the coarse workmanship and sometimes hilariously (de)formed characters.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Thien Thanh Nguyen Bao </b>(天聖元寶), imitating a Northern Song Tian Sheng Yuan Bao:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]689023[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b> Đại Định Thong Bao</b> (大定通寶), imitating a Northern Song Da Ding Tong Bao:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]689024[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Thanh Nguyen Thong Bao </b>(聖元通寶), a fair bit of debate concerning this type, probably not an actual imitation:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]689025[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nguyen Phong Thong Bao </b>(元豐通寶), imitating a Northern Song Yuan Feng Tong Bao:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]689029[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AnYangMan, post: 2877743, member: 87271"]Nice one, Loong siew! ‘Official’ Vietnamese cash is quite an interesting area! I can only post a couple of later, unofficial, cash coins, most likely cast in Vietnam. They all imitate Chinese cash coins, An Phap style (you mentioned these Chinese imitations in your write-up, I believe), but they are much, much smaller (around 21 mm) than the coins they imitate. Dating these is problematic, as is accurately determining the country of origin. Note the coarse workmanship and sometimes hilariously (de)formed characters. [B]Thien Thanh Nguyen Bao [/B](天聖元寶), imitating a Northern Song Tian Sheng Yuan Bao: [ATTACH=full]689023[/ATTACH] [B] Đại Định Thong Bao[/B] (大定通寶), imitating a Northern Song Da Ding Tong Bao: [ATTACH=full]689024[/ATTACH] [B]Thanh Nguyen Thong Bao [/B](聖元通寶), a fair bit of debate concerning this type, probably not an actual imitation: [ATTACH=full]689025[/ATTACH] [B]Nguyen Phong Thong Bao [/B](元豐通寶), imitating a Northern Song Yuan Feng Tong Bao: [ATTACH=full]689029[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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