1 Cash - Daoguang Tongbao, Ili, with dot

The Ili mint — operating in what is now Xinjiang — was established specifically to supply coinage to the military garrisons and settlers of China's far northwestern frontier, a region the Qing had only consolidated after the brutal Dzungar campaigns of the 1750s. Coins struck there rarely circulated back east, making them geographically isolated survivors. The dot variety on this type is a die distinction documented by Hartill, likely reflecting a supervisory or batch-marking convention used at frontier mints where oversight was less centralized than at metropolitan facilities.