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1 Cash Kaiyuan Tongbao, Nan, with number
| Issuer | Uncertain Chinese kingdoms |
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| Year | 917-971 |
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| Currency | Cash (907-971) |
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| Obverse description | 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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| Obverse lettering | 開 寶 通 元 (Translation: Kai Yuan Tong Bao Inaugural currency) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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