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1 Cash - Mingdao Yuanbao, Seal script
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1032-1033 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, seal script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mingdao Yuanbao was cast for the Mingdao reign period of Emperor Renzong of Song — a reign name meaning "bright way," adopted as the court sought to signal Confucian rectitude following a period of factional tension at the Kaifeng capital. The seal script variety was produced alongside a running script version, a dual-script practice the Northern Song mints maintained inconsistently across reign periods, making the pairing itself a minor bureaucratic curiosity.
Renzong's reign ultimately ran 41 years, the longest of any Song emperor, but Mingdao lasted only two of them before the era name changed again.