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1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Boo-chiowan
| Issuer | Qing Dynasty Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 1890-1899 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Boo-chiowan mint — romanization of the Board of Revenue mint in Beijing — held a privileged position among Qing casting facilities, supplying coin directly to the imperial capital rather than a provincial administration. By the 1890s, however, traditional cast cash was being systematically displaced by machine-struck coinage introduced at southern mints following Western models. These hand-cast pieces from Boo-chiowan represent the dying output of a production method China had used continuously for over two millennia, persisting in Beijing largely through bureaucratic inertia as the dynasty itself destabilized around it.