1 Cash - Songyuan Tongbao, with dot

The Songyuan Tongbao was the inaugural coinage of the Song dynasty, issued under Taizu following his seizure of power from the Later Zhou in 960. The dot variety — a small pellet positioned within the reverse field — is catalogued separately by Hartill precisely because such minor die distinctions were introduced deliberately or crept in through individual mint practice, and Song-era foundries were numerous enough that attribution to a specific casting site remains difficult. Taizu's reign saw an aggressive reassertion of centralized bronze cash production after decades of fragmented Five Dynasties issues.