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1 Cash - Kangxi Tongbao, Nan / Nan, with crescent and dot
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint / Board of Works Mint, Qing Dynasty |
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| Year | 1684-1700 |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Mintage | ND (1684-1700) |
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The Kangxi Emperor's reign saw repeated attempts to standardize cash coinage across a fragmented mint system — in 1684, both the Board of Revenue and Board of Works mints in Beijing were ordered to resume production after a suspension, with strict weight and alloy regulations that were almost immediately ignored in practice. The "Nan" mint mark here denotes the southern furnaces within those Beijing facilities, a subdivision used to distinguish output from specific casting groups rather than geographic location.
The crescent and dot are positional marks added to identify individual furnace batches, useful for tracing defective output back to its source.