The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 21, May 19, 2002, Article 5

VIETNAMESE NUMISMATIC BOOK

  Howard A. Daniel III writes: "I am on a trip at this time to
  Singapore and Viet Nam, and am in Ho Chi Minh City
  now until May 22.  I am visiting friends and relatives over
  here but I am also doing some numismatic and philatelic
  research. In Singapore, I attended the Numismatic Society
  (Asia) monthly meeting.

  Of the about fifteen people there all but two collect
  Singapore and the issues of closely surrounding countries.
  The other two collect cash-style coins of East Asia, and
  one of them gave me a draft copy of his book describing
  and illustrating 100 coins of King Canh Hung of 1740-1787.

  He asked me to bring it to Viet Nam and work with a couple
  of collectors here to identify all of the Chinese-style
  Vietnamese characters in the current Vietnamese language.
  I just finished this work and I will mail it to him from the post
  office in the Changi International Airport in Singapore.
  King Canh Hung issued more different coins that any other
  ruler of Viet Nam.  This book shows only about half of them,
  but it is an excellent start and will definitely be a valuable
  addition to the library of a collector of Vietnamese and/or
  East Asian cash-style coins.  It should be published within the
  next six months and I will order many copies of them for myself
  and to donate to several numismatic libraries in the U.S.,
  France and Viet Nam.

  I can be reached here in Viet Nam at my regular email
  address of Howard@SEAsianTreasury.com, if you want to
  contact me."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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