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1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Boo-fu
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1887-1906 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ᠪᠣᠣ ᡶᡠ (Translation: Boo-fu) |
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| Mintage | ND (1887-1893) - Hartill#22.1324: Tong with closed head; pointed and wide Fu - ND (1887-1893) - Hartill#22.1326: Tong with closed head; pointed and narrow Fu - ND (1887-1893) - Hartill#22.1327: Tong with closed head; rounded Fu - ND (1887-1906) - Hartill#-; C#10-25.2: Manchu legend inverted - ND (1893-1906) - Hartill#22.1328: Tong with open head; round top Boo - ND (1893-1906) - Hartill#22.1329: Tong with open head; protruding top Boo - ND (1893-1906) - Hartill#22.1330: Protruding top Boo; small characters - ND (1893-1906) - Hartill#22.1331: Protruding top Boo; small size (around 20 mm) - |
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Boo-fu was the Board of Revenue mint in Beijing, one of the two central imperial mints that operated under direct court supervision throughout the Qing dynasty. By the Guangxu period, these cash coins were increasingly anachronistic — machine-struck copper cents were already being introduced at provincial mints following the Guangzhou experiment of 1900, and the hand-cast square-hole cash represented a monetary technology essentially unchanged since the Tang. The Beijing mints were finally shuttered around 1905 as the Qing currency reform gathered momentum.