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1 Cash - Dading Tongbao, repeated inscription
| Issuer | Great Jin |
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| Year | 1178 |
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| Weight | 4.07 g |
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| Obverse description | Cast bronze cash coin featuring a central square hole (穿) surrounded by four Chinese characters in regular script (楷書), arranged in cruciform fashion and read top-to-bottom, right-to-left: 大 (top), 通 (right), 寶 (bottom), 定 (left), forming the reign legend 大定通寶 (Dading Tongbao). The characters are boldly rendered with confident strokes, flanked by a plain inner rim around the square perforation and a raised outer rim encircling the flat field. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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The Dading reign (1161–1189) of Emperor Shizong was among the most stable periods of Jurchen Jin rule, and the coinage reflects it — large, well-organized minting operations supplied a cash economy that functioned across a vast north Chinese territory still absorbing former Song administrative infrastructure. The "repeated inscription" variety, in which the reverse carries a second rendering of the obverse legend rather than a blank field or single character, remains incompletely explained; it may indicate a secondary mint, a supervisory mark system, or simply a die-preparation anomaly that escaped correction.