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1 Cash Taiping Tongbao
| Issuer | Yunnan-Guizhou tribes |
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| Year | 1488-1505 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | 太平通寶 (Transliteration: Tai Ping Tong Bao / Translation: Taiping Circulating Currency) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Taiping Tongbao inscription had been in use since the Song dynasty, and its reappearance on tribal coinage from the southwestern frontier during the Hongzhi reign period reflects the complex monetary autonomy exercised by non-Han chieftains under the tusi system. These leaders operated semi-independently, issuing their own cash coins that circulated alongside — and sometimes instead of — officially sanctioned Ming coinage in the mountainous regions straddling modern Yunnan and Guizhou. Attribution to specific issuing groups remains difficult; the coins survive without documentary records tying individual types to named chieftains.