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| Issuer | Board of Works Mint (工部局), Qing Dynasty |
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| Year | 1653-1657 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Mintage | ND (1653-1657) |
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The Board of Works Mint in Beijing was ordered in 1653 to adopt an experimental reverse format inscribed with the coin's official weight — one li — alongside the issuing bureau's cyclical designation. This short-lived policy, abandoned by 1657, was Beijing's attempt to rationalize cash coinage after decades of debased and wildly inconsistent private casting. The experiment failed to gain traction; the weight standard itself was never reliably enforced across other mints, and the format was quietly dropped in favor of the Manchu-script reverses that would define Qing cash for the next two centuries.