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1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Boo-fung
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint, Beijing (Boo-fung) |
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| Year | 1899-1908 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central square hole flanked on either side by a single Manchu script character, each read vertically, together forming the mint name Boo-fung (ᠪᠣᠣ ᡶᡠᠩ), identifying the Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing. The field is otherwise plain and undecorated, with no additional ornamental elements, in keeping with standard late Qing Board of Revenue cash coin production. |
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| Reverse lettering | ᠪᠣᠣ ᡶᡠᠩ (Translation: Boo-fung) |
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The Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing operated under direct imperial oversight, making its output nominally the most authoritative coinage in the Qing system — yet by the late 1890s that authority was largely symbolic. Provincial mints had proliferated so aggressively that central issues like this one circulated alongside dozens of local variants of dubious weight and alloy, with no effective mechanism to enforce uniformity. The cash system itself was in terminal decline, undercut by the same foreign silver and copper machine-struck coins the Qing court had reluctantly licensed to mint.
Hartill 22.1374 places this among the final conventional cast cash issues before the format was abandoned entirely.