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Vietnam
King Thành Thái (1889-1907)
1888-1907
Bronze
10
Cash 27mm
Reference: KM# 628
成 寶通 泰 , Chinese characters around square hole.
文 十, Chinese characters around square hole.
Coin Notes:
Thành Thái (成泰; 14 March 1879 – 20 March 1954)
born Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lân (阮福寶嶙), was the son of
Emperor Dục Đức and Empress Dowager Từ Minh. He
reigned as emperor for 18 years, from 1889 to
1907.
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Cash was a type of coin of China and East
Asia, used from the 4th century BC until the
20th century AD. Originally cast during the
Warring States period, these coins continued to
be used for the entirety of Imperial China as
well as under Mongol, and Manchu rule. The last
Chinese cash coins were cast in the first year
of the Republic of China. Generally most cash
coins were made from copper or bronze alloys,
with iron, lead, and zinc coins occasionally
used less often throughout Chinese history. Rare
silver and gold cash coins were also produced.
During most of their production, cash coins were
cast but, during the late Qing dynasty,
machine-struck cash coins began to be made. As
the cash coins produced over Chinese history
were similar, thousand year old cash coins
produced during the Northern Song dynasty
continued to circulate as valid currency well
into the early twentieth century.
In the
modern era, these coins are considered to be
Chinese “good luck coins”; they are hung on
strings and round the necks of children, or over
the beds of sick people. They hold a place in
various superstitions, as well as Traditional
Chinese medicine, and Feng shui. Currencies
based on the Chinese cash coins include the
Japanese mon, Korean mun, Ryukyuan mon, and
Vietnamese văn.
Vietnam,
officially the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam, is a country in
Southeast Asia. Located at the eastern edge of
mainland Southeast Asia, it covers 311,699
square kilometres. With a population of over
96 million, it is the world’s fifteenth-most
populous country. Vietnam borders China to the
north, Laos and Cambodia to the west, and shares
maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf
of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and
Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its
capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi
Minh City (Saigon). Vietnam was
inhabited as early as the Paleolithic age. The
first known Vietnamese nation during the first
millennium BC centred on the Red River Delta,
located in modern-day northern Vietnam. The Han
dynasty annexed and put the Vietnamese under
Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first
independent dynasty emerged in 939. Successive
monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese
influences through Confucianism and Buddhism,
and expanded southward to the Mekong Delta. The
Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—fell to French
colonisation in 1887. Following the August
Revolution, the nationalist Viet Minh under the
leadership of communist revolutionary Ho Chi
Minh proclaimed independence from France in
1945.
Vietnam went through prolonged warfare through the 20th century. After World
War II, France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War,
from which Vietnam emerged victorious in 1954. The Vietnam War began shortly
after, during which the nation was divided into communist North supported by the
Soviet Union and China, and anti-communist South supported by the United States.
Upon North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary socialist
state under the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1976. An ineffective planned
economy, trade embargo by the West, and wars with Cambodia and China crippled
the country. In 1986, the Communist Party initiated economic and political
reforms, transforming the country to a market-oriented economy.
The reforms facilitated Vietnamese integration into global economy and
politics. A developing country with a lower-middle-income economy, Vietnam is
one of the fastest growing economies of the 21st century. It is part of
international and intergovernmental institutions including the United Nations,
the ASEAN, the APEC, the CPTPP, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organisation
internationale de la Francophonie, and the World Trade Organization. It has
assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council twice. Contemporary issues
in Vietnam include corruption and a poor human rights record.
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