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1 Cash - Honghua Tongbao, Hu
| Issuer | Great Zhou dynasty |
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| Year | 1679-1681 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Cast brass cash coin of conventional round form centering on a square perforation, with the four-character reign legend 洪化通寶 (Honghua Tongbao) disposed in regular script (kaishu) reading top-to-bottom, right-to-left around the central aperture. The characters are rendered in bold, well-defined relief against a flat field, enclosed within a plain inner rim bordering the square hole and a raised outer rim defining the coin's circumference. The surface exhibits a natural patina of brown and blue-green cuprite consistent with age, with areas of mineral encrustation visible across the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Great Zhou dynasty was the short-lived regime of Wu Sangui, the Ming general who famously opened the Shanhai Pass to Qing forces in 1644 and spent the following decades as a powerful but nominally subordinate warlord in Yunnan. By 1673 he had broken with the Kangxi Emperor and raised the Revolt of the Three Feudatories. The Honghua reign title dates to his formal declaration of the Zhou dynasty in 1678, just months before his death in August of that year. These cash coins were struck at the Hu Board mint during the brief period his successors held the regime together before Qing forces extinguished it in 1681.