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1 Cash - Qianyou Yuanbao, Regular script
| Issuer | Western Xia Empire |
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| Year | 1170-1193 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Western Xia — a Tangut state that held the Hexi Corridor against both Song and Jin pressure for nearly two centuries — produced coinage in both Chinese and Tangut scripts, a deliberate assertion of cultural independence from their neighbors. The Qianyou reign period spanned the rule of Renzong, under whom the empire reached its administrative and cultural peak before the eventual Mongol campaigns that would eradicate the state entirely in 1227.
Hartill 18.02 is the regular-script Chinese issue, distinct from the far rarer Tangut-script parallel striking of the same reign.