{"id":259,"date":"2013-08-20T05:15:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/?p=259"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:23:11","slug":"thuan-thien-dai-bao-the-first-currency-of-ly-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/thuan-thien-dai-bao-the-first-currency-of-ly-dynasty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d – the first currency of Ly Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"

At any time with barter, money is indispensable in the social life. So was Ly Dynasty. The first currency of Ly Dynasty was identified as \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d. This is widely confirmed; museums and galerries displaying the coins also confirm that these were the first currency of Ly Dynasty, commonly used from 1010 to 1028.<\/p>\n

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The first currency of Ly Dynasty<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

Thuan Thien dai bao had the diameter of from 24 to 25.5 mm. On the back of the coin had the word \u201cNguy\u1ec7t\u201d (moon). The surface was printed with four Chinese words \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d in italic type. The coin had ribbed rim and a wide hole. This is a rare type of currency, thus it is often displayed with only one coin. Some collectors have provided many different forms of this currency, leading to the speculation that \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d could be printed many times.<\/p>\n

In the feudal history of the East, only two kings getting the reign name as Thuan Thien were Ly Thai To and Le Thai To. These two kings were Vietnamese kings. In monetary history, there were three types of currency bearing this name, i.e. \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d, \u201cSmall Thuan Thien nguyen bao\u201d and \u201cBig Thuan Thien nguyen bao\u201d. \u201cBig Thuan Thien nguyen bao\u201d was casted in 759 by Su Tu Minh under Tang Dynasty with characteristics of the northern feudal money. Therefore, \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d and \u201cSmall Thuan Thien nguyen bao\u201d were Vietnamese currency.\u00a0 Thus, some people rank \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d and \u201cThuan Thien nguyen bao\u201d as\u00a0 Le Dynasty\u2019s currency, ordered to cast by King Le Thai To.\u00a0 However, this is not true.<\/p>\n

Although old history does not mention the casting of currency under King Ly Thai To\u2019s reign, it is reasonable to assume that during such a relatively peaceful period of the first king of the dynasty, it is difficult to accept that the reign did not have its own currency. Moreover, \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d is rare and only appears in the ruins of Ly – Tran Dynasties or mixes with other currencies of Ly – Tran Dynasties.\u00a0 Meanwhile, in the ruins of Le Dynasty, we have never encountered this kind of currency but \u201cThuan Thien nguyen bao\u201d.\u00a0 In addition, there is a huge difference in the way of carving the three words \u201cThu\u1eadn\u201d, \u201cThi\u00ean\u201d and \u201cB\u1ea3o\u201d. Therefore, many people have agreed to the classification: \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d was casted under King Ly Thai To\u2019s reign, whereas \u201cThuan Thien nguyen bao\u201d was casted under King Le Thai To\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n

Thus, although new to the throne in place of Tyrant Le Ngoa Trieu Le, opening up a country at peace under Ly Dynasty, Thai To Ly Cong Uan was very keen to the casting of curruncy, asserting the centralized power in the hands of the king and thereby confirming the independence of Dai Co Viet, the official name of our country under King Ly Thai To\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n

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At any time with barter, money is indispensable in the social life. So was Ly Dynasty. The first currency of Ly Dynasty was identified as \u201cThuan Thien dai bao\u201d. This is widely confirmed; museums and galerries displaying the coins also confirm that these were the first currency of Ly Dynasty, commonly used from 1010 to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architectures","category-imperial-citadel-of-thang-long"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}