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1 Cash - Songyuan Tongbao, with stroke
| Issuer | Northern Song Dynasty |
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| Year | 960-976 |
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| Weight | 3.30 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the four-character reign title legend 宋元通寶 (Song Yuan Tong Bao) rendered in clerical script (lishu), arranged in the traditional cross reading: top-bottom-right-left around a central square perforation. The characters are boldly cast in raised relief against a flat, unadorned field, enclosed by a plain inner rim surrounding the square hole and an outer raised border. The overall composition is characteristic of early Northern Song cash coinage, with the characters exhibiting the structured, angular strokes typical of official lishu calligraphy. The flat, undecorated field between the legend and the outer rim is devoid of auxiliary marks on this face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 宋 寶 通 元 (Translation: Song Yuan Universal Currency) |
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| Mintage | ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2i: Stroke above - ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2j: Stroke to the top right - ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2k: Stroke to the right - ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2l: Stroke to the bottom right - ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2m: Stroke below - ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2n: Stroke to the bottom left - ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2o: Stroke to the left - ND (960-976) - Hartill#16.2p: Stroke to the top left - |
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