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1 Cash - Qianyuan Zhongbao, lead
| Issuer | Ma Chu Kingdom |
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| Year | 925-927 |
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| Currency | Cash (911-930) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Mintage | ND (925-927) |
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Ma Chu was one of the Ten Kingdoms that fragmented China following the collapse of the Tang dynasty, controlling the Hunan region under the Ma family from 897 until 951. The Qianyuan Zhongbao in lead is a particularly marginal issue even within that fragmented political moment — lead coinage signals acute copper scarcity, and Ma Chu's remote inland position made access to reliable metal supplies genuinely difficult. The kingdom minted in iron and lead precisely because it had to.
Hartill 15.70 is among the scarcer attributions in the Ma Chu series, and lead's corrosive instability over ten centuries means survivors in legible condition are genuinely uncommon.