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| Emittent | Uncertain Chinese kingdoms |
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| Jahr | 917-971 |
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| Nennwert | 1 Cash |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Cast round coin with a central square hole, bearing four Chinese ideograms in clerical script arranged in cruciform fashion around the central perforation, read top to bottom and right to left. The legend 開元通寶 (Kaiyuan Tongbao) is rendered in bold, slightly archaic clerical strokes characteristic of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The characters are contained within a plain inner rim and a raised outer rim, with the fields between the characters left undecorated. The overall style reflects a provincial imitation of the classic Tang dynasty Kaiyuan Tongbao type. |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Cast reverse featuring a plain inner rim and raised outer rim surrounding the central square hole, with two Chinese ideograms in regular script positioned above and below the perforation respectively. The character 南 (Nan; South) appears above the hole and 四 (Si; 4) appears below, both rendered in bold, slightly crude strokes consistent with provincial lead cash production of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The remaining quadrants flanking the hole are left blank, giving the reverse a sparse, functional appearance typical of locally issued subsidiary coinage. |
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The Kaiyuan Tongbao design, first introduced under Tang Xuanzong in 621 AD, was so thoroughly adopted by subsequent states that attribution of individual pieces to specific issuing authorities remains genuinely contested. Lead-composition examples like this one were produced by several of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties period — a stretch of fragmentation during which minting authority splintered across warlord-controlled southern China. The "Nan" inscription and numerical reverse mark are the primary attributive tools scholars use, though die-study consensus on exact issuing states is still incomplete.