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1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Boo-gi, struck
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1889-1890 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Boo-gi was the romanized designation for the Board of Revenue mint in Beijing, one of two central government mints operating under the Qing fiscal apparatus. By the late 1880s, machine-struck cash coins were being introduced partly in response to the catastrophic quality of hand-cast issues flooding circulation from provincial furnaces — counterfeiting and underweight casting had become systemic. The struck format was a direct intervention, intended to impose dimensional consistency that casting simply could not guarantee.
The 1889–1890 window was narrow. Machine coinage at Boo-gi was short-lived before production priorities shifted to the new silver and copper milled denominations then transforming Qing monetary policy.