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Ancient coins unearthed in Quang Tri, Vietnam

by clantraveler | April 13, 2008 at 07:30 am

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"The central province of Quang Tri’s museum is to receive 34kg of ancient coins from a local resident in Dong Ha Town.
The ancient coins were unearthed by a man in Ha Tay village while he was scavenging for rubble iron and steel left from war. Nguyen Du Dac bought the ancient coins and donated them to the Quang Tri Museum.
The coins are contained in a glazed terra-cotta jar and come from several of China’s dynastic periods; there are also some rare Vietnamese coins cast between 960 and 1454." - Translated from a Vietnamese article at VietnamNet.vn

Quang Tri, a coastal province in the North Central Part of Vietnam, is bounded on the north by Quang binh, on the south by Hue, on the west by Lao PRD and on the east by the East Sea. The capital of Quang Tri is Dong Ha, which is 598 kilometres to the south of Hanoi and 1112 kilometres to the north of Ho Chi Minh City.