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1 Cash - Taihe Tongbao, Regular script
| Issuer | Great Jin |
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| Year | 1204-1208 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Plain and uninscribed reverse featuring a central square hole flanked by a raised inner rim and a plain outer rim. The field is entirely blank with no legend, mintmark, or decorative elements, consistent with the uniface convention of standard Jin dynasty cash coinage. The surface exhibits heavy patination with green and brown encrustation typical of excavated or long-circulated bronze cast coins of this period. |
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The Taihe reign (1201–1208) of Emperor Zhangzong was a period of relative cultural flourishing within the Jurchen Jin dynasty, but the monetary situation was anything but stable. Jin administrators were already struggling with the inflationary consequences of overissued paper currency — the *jiaochao* — and bronze cash production during this period was intended partly to reassure a population losing confidence in paper notes. The tension between metal coinage and paper money would ultimately outlast the Taihe era itself.
Hartill 18.58 distinguishes this regular-script issue from the concurrent seal-script and running-script varieties struck under the same reign title — a deliberate multi-script policy unusual even by Song-influenced Jin minting standards.