User:Donald Trung/Vietnamese văn (currency unit)

This page serves as "the editing history" of the English Wikipedia article "Vietnamese văn (currency unit)" and is preserved for attribution. ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 15:49, 19 March 2019 (UTC).

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The Vietnamese văn (Hán tự: 文; French: Sapèque) as a denomination for Vietnamese cash coins was used from 1868 until 1885 during the reign of the Nguyễn dynasty (but appeared on cash coins until 1945). The inspiration to introduce the văn may have been to emulate the Chinese wén used on contemporary Qing dynasty cash coins which had just become a fiat currency, however unlike the Chinese system where all Chinese cash coins were cast from the same metals the and the wén was the primary unit of account, the Vietnamese system used the văn as a basic number currency symbol indicating how much zinc cash coins a brass cash coin was worth, while it used the quán and mạch as units of account. It was abolished as a measurement for zinc cash coins when the French Indochinese piastre was introduced, after which the term still appeared on Vietnamese cash coins but represented a subdivision of the piastre known in French as sapèque as the production of zinc coinage was ceased by the Imperial government of the Nguyễn dynasty around the year 1871.

The French sapèque was worth $1/undefined$ of a piastre (a currency based on the Mexican peso) and represented Vietnamese cash coins in general. The Vietnamese term văn (文) would appear on the Thành Thái Thông Bảo (成泰通寶), Duy Tân Thông Bảo (維新通寶), and Bảo Đại Thông Bảo (保大通寶) cash coins produced under French rule, the last of these was officially produced until 1945.

History


It first used by official decree in January 1868 during the reign of the Tự Đức Emperor which decreed that "the value of the large module copper cash coin passed to 6 (zinc) and the small copper coin to 4 zinc". In 1872 the first brass Tự Đức Thông Bảo (嗣德通寶) cash coins with the monetary unit văn were cast in Hanoi, these cash coins has weight of 7 phần and had the reverse inscription "Lục Văn" (六文) on them indicating that these coins were worth 6 zinc cash coins. The introduction of this new currency symbol marked the change in the relationship between Vietnamese cash coins made from copper and cash coins of zinc and it de facto increased the value of the Vietnamese brass cash currency. In November 1879 the official value of 6 copper phần was equal to 6 sapèques of zinc. However the foreign cash coinages as well as imitation (counterfeit) Vietnamese cash coins made of inferior alloys that circulated in Vietnam at the time were exchanged for only 3 cash coins of zinc.

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 * 1) Vietnamese Văn (currency unit).
 * 2) Vietnamese cash (currency unit).
 * 3) Vietnamese Cash (currency unit).
 * 4) Vietnamese van (currency unit)
 * 5) Vietnamese Van (currency unit)