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1 Cash - Daoguang Tongbao, Boo-chiowan
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint (戶部局), Beijing |
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| Year | 1821-1850 |
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| Reference(s) | Hartill#22.570-22.581, FD#2384, Schjoth#1512 |
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| Obverse lettering | 道 寶 通 光 (Translation: Dao Guang Tong Bao Daoguang (Emperor) / Universal currency) |
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| Reverse script | Mongolian / Manchu |
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The Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing was one of two imperial mints operating within the capital during the Qing dynasty, the other being the Board of Works Mint. Both were sustained largely for prestige and administrative function rather than economic efficiency — provincial mints handled the bulk of actual circulation coinage. By the Daoguang reign, chronic underfunding and bureaucratic corruption had degraded output quality at both Beijing facilities, and periodic suspensions of casting were not uncommon. The Hartill range 22.570–22.581 reflects meaningful die and compositional variation across the reign's nearly three decades.