1 Cash - Chunyou Yuanbao

The Chunyou reign period under Emperor Lizong was marked by relentless Mongol pressure on the northern frontier and a Southern Song administration increasingly dependent on paper currency to fund military expenditure. Bronze cash of this period circulated alongside — and often well below the face value of — government-issued jiaozi and huizi notes, a monetary environment that drove hoarding of coin and chronic shortages in daily commerce.

Chunyou Yuanbao issues are catalogued across multiple script styles and reverse types, with Hartill distinguishing several varieties; the specific die marriage matters more to value here than grade alone.