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1 Cash - Shunzhi Tongbao, Chinese reverse with Yi Li, Yuan
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint / Board of Works Mint, Qing Dynasty |
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| Year | 1653-1657 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central square perforation surrounded by a raised inner rim and an outer raised rim enclosing the field. Four Chinese ideograms in regular script (kaishu) are arranged in cruciform fashion around the central hole, reading top to bottom and right to left: 順 (Shun), 治 (Zhi), 通 (Tong), 寳 (Bao), together forming the reign title legend 'Shunzhi Tongbao' — the 'universally circulating treasure of the Shunzhi Emperor'. The characters are cleanly cast with bold, even strokes typical of early Qing imperial coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1653-1657) |
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Between 1653 and 1657, the Shunzhi emperor's administration pushed through a series of coinage reforms attempting to standardize cash production across an empire still consolidating control after the Ming collapse. This particular type — carrying the weight denomination in Chinese on the reverse — was part of that experiment, one of several format trials run simultaneously at the Board of Revenue and Board of Works mints in Beijing before the court abandoned the approach entirely by 1657 and shifted to a different reverse convention incorporating Manchu script.