1 Cash - Longqing Tongbao

Longqing Tongbao coinage covers only three years of production — the Longqing Emperor's reign lasted just six years total, cut short by his death in 1572, and minting had not begun until 1570. That brevity, combined with a court more interested in administrative reform than monetary expansion, kept output modest relative to the longer Jiajing and Wanli issues that bracket it.

Both the Board of Revenue and Board of Works operated separate furnaces in Beijing, each producing distinguishable variants that account for much of the die diversity catalogued by Hartill and Schjoth.