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1 Cash - Qianlong Posthumous Tongbao, Aksu, light type, one-stroke A

Issuer Qing Dynasty Imperial Mint, Aksu
Year 1878-1883
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Currency Cash (1759-1909)
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Obverse script Chinese (traditional, regular script)
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Reverse script Mongolian / Manchu, Old Uyghur
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Following Yakub Beg's defeat and China's reconquest of Xinjiang in 1877, the Qing administration scrambled to reassert economic control over a region that had been effectively severed from the imperial monetary system for over a decade. The Aksu mint resumed operations producing cash coins in Qianlong's name — a posthumous attribution that had been standard practice for Xinjiang mints since the 18th century, conferring legitimacy through a long-dead emperor's reign title rather than the reigning Guangxu period.

The "one-stroke A" designation refers to a specific calligraphic variant in the Manchu reverse inscription, used to distinguish die families within Aksu's output during this transitional period. The light type reflects reduced copper content relative to earlier Xinjiang issues.

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