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1 Cash - Songyuan Tongbao, with crescent
| Uitgever | Empire of China |
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| Jaar | 960-976 |
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| Techniek | Cast |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Cast bronze cash coin featuring a central square perforation surrounded by a raised inner rim. Four Chinese characters in clerical script (lishu) are arranged in cruciform fashion around the central hole, read top-to-bottom and right-to-left: 宋 (Song), 元 (Yuan), 通 (Tong), 寶 (Bao). The characters are set within a plain inner field bounded by a raised square collar, with a smooth outer field extending to a raised rim. A crescent mark appears at various positions in the field depending on the variety, serving as a mint or die-control mark. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The Songyuan Tongbao was the inaugural coinage of the Song dynasty, issued under Emperor Taizu following his consolidation of power in 960 after decades of fragmentation during the Five Dynasties period. The crescent mark — a small lunar symbol placed within the reverse field — is among the earliest documented privy marks in Chinese numismatics, used to distinguish output from specific furnaces or casting supervisors within the same mint operation. Hartill's cataloguing of this variety as 16.1 places it at the very opening of a dynasty that would ultimately run for over three centuries.