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1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Boo-nan
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1896-1899 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Cast brass cash coin reverse featuring a central square hole flanked by two Manchu (Qing dynasty official script) characters arranged horizontally, reading 'Boo-nan' (ᠪᠣᠣ ᠨᠠᠨ), identifying the Yunnan Mint. The characters are rendered in the standard Manchu script style employed on Qing dynasty cash coinage, positioned to the left and right of the central aperture. The fields are plain, bounded by a raised inner rim and a plain outer rim, consistent with provincial cast cash of the late Qing period. |
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The Boo-nan mint (Hunan province) operated under persistent pressure from Beijing to modernize its cash coinage during the 1890s, yet continued producing traditional cast pieces long after southern coastal mints had shifted to machine-struck production. Hartill 22.1356 places this issue within a provincial series marked by inconsistent alloy sourcing — Hunan's brass compositions from this period vary noticeably due to disrupted copper supply lines following the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95.
Hunan was among the last provinces to fully abandon the cast cash tradition, and production at Boo-nan dragged into the final years of the Guangxu reign before mechanical minting displaced the old furnace methods entirely.