From the year Canh Ngọ (970) Đinh Tiên Hoàng counted years in his own era, Thái Bình, and had round copper coins with a square hole cast, the Thái Bình hưng bảo, the oldest Vietnamese currency.
Political
Thái Bình era and the first Vietnamese coins
- 970 CE
- Southeast Asia
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