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1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Boo-jiyen
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1888-1899 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 光 寶 通 緒 (Translation: Guang Xu Tong Bao Guangxu (Emperor) / Circulating currency) |
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| Reverse script | Mongolian / Manchu |
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The Boo-jiyen mint — the Board of Revenue's western mint in Beijing — was one of the few facilities still striking traditional cast cash in the final decades of the Qing dynasty, even as machine-struck coinage was being introduced elsewhere in China. By the 1890s, cast cash had become economically marginal; the copper content of the coins frequently exceeded their face value, incentivizing melting. Hartill 22.1460 places this squarely within the dying tradition.
Production at Boo-jiyen was intermittent and often suspended due to raw material shortages.