Reverse : plain
Price IDR : Rp.100.000
grade: XF
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b.
4th King - 聖宗 THAN-TONG. 1460-1498. Nghi-dan having disappeared, his brother 思誠 TU-THANH, fourth son of THAI-TONG, was proclaimed king. During his reign the kingdom of Ciampa was destroyed, and its territories incorporated with Annam. The Annals are loud in the praise of this king, who evidently raised the country to its highest degree of splendour and wealth
Copper coin issued by Thanh-tong during his second nien-hao (1470-1498) The coins of this king reflect the great prosperity which existed in Annam during that period. The metal is of very good quality, and the casting resembles the K'ai-yuen coins of China.( from art-hanoi.com)
Observe: Minh-mang-thong-bao.
Reverse : plain
Price IDR : Rp.50.000
grade: XF
a. (SOLD)
b. (SOLD)
Di Bali uang ini lebih dikenal dengan istilah pis bolong gedong bawah,menurut kepercayaan yang beredar di Bali berfungsi untuk menjaga keutuhan rumah tangga (tentram),juga ada yang menyebutkan bahwa fungsinya untuk melancarkan usaha dagang. Ada juga beberapa masyarakat menaruh uang ini di tiang utama rumah,yang fungsinya rumah lebih memiliki aura kebaikan.
Real story about this coin (art-hanoi.com):
The 阮 Nguyen Dynasty. From 1776 to the present time.
King 嘉隆 GIA-LONG was the nephew of King DUE-TONG, THE last sovereign of
Cochinchina, and being gifted with an active mind and with great powers
of organization, he determined to reconquer the territory which had been
taken possession of by the Tay-son rebels.
His lack was at first a very changeable one, for at one time he reigned in the South of Cochinchina with absolute power, and at another he found himself alone, persecuted, without an army, and forced to take refuge in Siam. At last success favoured him. With the help of the French, secured through the direct intervention of the Bishop of Adran, and assisted by the Siamese and Cambodian armies, he not only re-occupied the former territory of the Quang-nam Principality belonging to his family, but also took possession of the whole of Tunquin. Out of these conquests he formed the kingdom of Annam, and in 1801 proclaimed himself king, thus founding the NGUYEN Dynasty, which is still in power at the present day.
Since then four kings have ascended the throne. The history of their reign contains but little worthy of note; moreover, it is' still of too recent a date to be dealt with impartially. These four kings are principally remarkable for their hatred towards foreigners and for their persecution of the Christians. It is only through the pressure of European armies that they have consented to open several ports to foreign trade, and at this very moment the country seems to be passing through a crisis, menaced as it is by the intervention of the French in Tunquin, who may possibly annex it in the same way as they annexed Lower Cochinchina twenty-five years ago.
The coins were issued by King MINH-MANG (1820-1838). The custom of casting medals with inscriptions on the reverse, such as 金玉其相追琢其章 or 風調雨順國泰民安 was followed by this king; but they never went into circulation.
Observe: Dien-ninh-thong-bao
Reverse : plain
Price IDR : Rp.100.000
grade: XF
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The Le Dynasty - 1428-1785
Copper coins issued by King 仁宗 NHON-TONG during his first nien-hao, (1443-1453). During his reign, Annam was engaged in a long continued war against. the kingdom of Ciampa and the tribes of Phuc-le-chao, Bou-man, Bao-lac, Thanh-da, and An-phu, which caused again a scarcity of copper; and the Queen Regent of the kingdom during the minority of the king had to revert once more to the old system of casting small cash.(art-hanoi.com)
