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1 Cash Hongzhi Tongbao
| Issuer | Ming Dynasty Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 1488-1505 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Hongzhi emperor is remembered as one of the more fiscally cautious rulers of the Ming period, and his reign saw genuine attempts to regularize coinage production after decades of erratic output under his predecessors. Central minting authority had largely collapsed during the Chenghua reign, with provincial furnaces producing wildly inconsistent cash. The Hongzhi reforms pulled much of that production back under tighter supervision — though enforcement remained uneven across the empire's vastness.
Cast rather than struck, as with all Ming cash, quality control depended entirely on the skill and honesty of individual furnace supervisors.