Vietnamese Tran Dynasty cash coins

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by TrungQuocDon, Aug 9, 2018.

  1. TrungQuocDon

    TrungQuocDon Member

    does anyone know a website where I can find information and images of Vietnamese cash coins from the Tran Dynasty?
     
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  4. Severus Alexander

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  5. TrungQuocDon

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    Toda is not the standard book, in fact it's horribly obsolete with many mistakes, Barker is the standard book and Toda's works and images are also already on Wikimedia Commons, see here:

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...m_Annam_and_its_minor_currency_(Trần_Dynasty)

    Barker is a better work but I can't view his book online. As for Zeno all the images from there (as admitted by the person who uploaded them there) were taken from either Dr. Barker directly or auctions that sold off his cash coins.
     
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  7. medoraman

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    I agree, Barker is best. Heck, his is even the best book for explanation on how the Chinese, (and later others) cast their coins. Great writeup of the process in the beginning of his book. Highly recommended.
     
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  8. TrungQuocDon

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    Yeah, I even spoke to the man and he seems like a really knowledgeable person (obviously since his book is #1), as much as I like Hartill, in his book "Cast Chinese coins" he barely explained how cash coins were made, Lars Bo Christensen did it better here:

    http://chinesecoins.lyq.dk/casting/casting.html
     
  9. Severus Alexander

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    I stand corrected! Sounds like I'll have to pick up a copy of Barker sometime if I want to really understand my couple dozen Annamese cash.
     
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