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1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Boo-dung
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint, Beijing / Shandong Mint / Yunnan Mint |
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| Year | 1875-1908 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
The Guangxu reign (1875–1908) coincided with relentless pressure on the Qing cash system from imported machine-struck copper coinage, which circulated at fractions of the cost to produce traditional cast pieces. Board of Revenue output from this period was chronically inconsistent — the Beijing furnaces were frequently undermanned and underfunded as treasury priorities shifted toward indemnity payments following the Sino-Japanese War and later the Boxer Protocol obligations. The "Boo-dung" mint mark indicates Shandong province attribution, though attributing individual cast cash to specific provincial furnaces in this reign remains genuinely contested among specialists.