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1 Cash - Pingjing Shengbao, Qian Ying
| Issuer | Guangdong Triad Society |
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| Year | 1857-1858 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Obverse description | Cast brass cash coin with a central square perforation. Four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu) are arranged in cruciform fashion around the central hole, reading top to bottom and right to left: 平靖勝寶 (Pingjing Shengbao). The boldly rendered raised characters occupy the four quadrants of the field, consistent with traditional Chinese cash coin design. The coin bears a broad, plain rim encircling the inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued by the Guangdong Triad Society during the Red Turban Rebellion — a regional uprising that erupted alongside, but distinct from, the Taiping movement — this cash piece served the short-lived insurgent administration that briefly seized Guangzhou's surrounding territories in 1854 before being suppressed with considerable violence. The Pingjing Shengbao inscription identifies it as a rebel emission, not a state coinage, making it among the more unusual brass cash types catalogued from mid-nineteenth century southern China.