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1 Cash - Anonymous Kaiyuan Tongbao, with crescent and dot
| Issuer | Tang Dynasty Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 621-907 |
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| Weight | 3.53 g |
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| Obverse description | Cast bronze cash coin bearing the four-character inscription 開元通寶 (Kaiyuan Tongbao) rendered in clerical script (lishu), arranged in cruciform fashion reading top, right, bottom, left around a central square perforation. Each character occupies one quadrant of the coin face, separated by the inner rim of the square hole. The legends are boldly cast with well-defined strokes against a flat, unadorned field, framed by a raised inner rim surrounding the square hole and a raised outer rim at the coin's periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, clerical script) |
| Obverse lettering | 開 寶 通 元 (Translation: Kai Yuan Tong Bao Inaugural currency) |
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