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1 Cash - Qingyuan Tongbao, Han, iron
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1195-1199 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | 慶 寶 元 通 (Translation: Qing Yuan Tong Bao Qingyuan (1st era of Ningzong, 1195-1200) / Universal currency) |
| Reverse description | Central square hole framed by a raised inner rim, with two Chinese ideograms in kaishu (Regular script) positioned vertically in the fields: 漢 (Han) above the central aperture and 五 (Wu, meaning 'five') below, denoting the Hanyang mint and the fifth year of the Qingyuan era (1199) respectively. The remaining left and right fields are blank. A plain raised outer rim borders the coin. Heavy iron corrosion and encrustation obscure the surface, characteristic of excavated Southern Song iron cash. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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