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1 Cash - Huangsong Yuanbao, with year
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1253-1258 |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole (穿) surrounded by a raised square inner rim, with four Chinese ideograms in Regular script (楷書) arranged in clockwise reading order around the central perforation: 皇 (above), 宋 (right), 元 (below), 寶 (left), together reading 皇宋元寶 (Huangsong Yuanbao). The characters are boldly cast in raised relief against a flat field, enclosed between the inner square rim and a plain outer raised rim. The overall style is characteristic of Southern Song dynasty cast coinage, with well-formed strokes and a patina of green and brown corrosion consistent with burial age. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse field with a central square perforation enclosed by a raised square inner rim and a plain outer raised rim. A single Chinese numeral ideogram in Regular script is cast in raised relief above the square hole, indicating the reign year. The field is otherwise uninscribed and shows a granular cast surface with extensive green patination typical of Southern Song bronze cash coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1 (1253) - Hartill#17.813: Year 元 (Yuan) - 2 (1254) - Hartill#17.814: Year 二 (Er) - 3 (1255) - Hartill#17.815: Year 三 (San) - 4 (1256) - Hartill#17.816: Year 四 (Si) - 5 (1257) - Hartill#17.817: Year 五 (Wu) - 6 (1258) - Hartill#17.818: Year 六 (Liu) - |
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