1 Cash - Shunzhi Tongbao, Manchu and Chinese reverse, San / Shaan

The San/Shaan reverse inscription on this cash identifies it as a product of the Shaanxi provincial mint, one of several regional facilities brought online as the early Qing administration pushed to consolidate control over former Ming territories in the northwest. The bilingual Manchu-Chinese reverse format was mandated by the Board of Revenue in 1657 as a deliberate assertion of Manchu administrative authority over the monetary system — a policy that displaced the purely Chinese-character reverses that had been standard under the Ming.

Shaanxi mintages from this window are notably inconsistent in fabric, a consequence of ongoing supply disruptions along metal transport routes still contested in the late Shunzhi period.