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1 Cash Hanyuan Tongbao
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 948-951 |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Obverse description | Central square perforation surrounded by four Chinese characters in clerical script (lishu), arranged in cruciform reading order: top to bottom, right to left. The four characters 漢元通寶 (Han Yuan Tong Bao) are boldly cast in raised relief against a plain, unadorned field. The coin exhibits a flat, rimmed border with no inner or outer raised rim rims beyond the natural casting edge. The characters display the characteristic squared, deliberate strokes of Five Dynasties-period clerical script, with the character 漢 at top, 通 at right, 元 at bottom, and 寶 at left flanking the central perforation. |
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| Obverse lettering | 漢元通寶 (Reading order: top-bottom, right-left: 漢 通 元 寶) (Translation: Han Yuan Tong Bao — currency of the Han [Later Han dynasty]) |
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Issued under Liu Chengyou, the second and final emperor of Han, one of the shortest-lived of the Ten Kingdoms that fragmented northern China following the Tang collapse. The Han lasted barely four years before Guo Wei, a general Liu had attempted to purge, overthrew the dynasty in 951 and founded the Later Zhou. Coins of this reign are consequently scarce by default — there was simply no time to mint in volume.