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1 Cash - Qiande Yuanbao
| Issuer | Former Shu Kingdom |
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| Year | 919-924 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Four Chinese characters in clerical script (lishu) are arranged in cruciform fashion around a central square perforation, reading clockwise from the top: 乾 (Qian), 德 (De), 元 (Yuan), 寶 (Bao). The characters are cast in low relief against a flat, unadorned field, flanked by a raised square inner rim surrounding the central hole and a plain outer rim. The overall design is austere and typical of Five Dynasties period cash coinage, with no additional decorative elements in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Former Shu was one of the Ten Kingdoms that fragmented China following the Tang collapse, ruled from Chengdu in the Sichuan basin — a region geographically isolated enough to sustain independent monetary production when most of the country was in chaos. Wang Yan, the kingdom's last ruler and the one under whom Qiande era coins were struck, was notoriously dissolute; contemporary chronicles describe his court as extravagant to the point of institutional dysfunction. His kingdom fell to Later Tang forces in 925, ending one of the shortest reign-era coin series of the period.