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1 Cash - Taiping Tongbao
| Issuer | Northern Song Dynasty Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 976-989 |
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| Weight | 3.33 g |
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| Obverse description | Cast bronze cash coin of standard Song Dynasty type, featuring a central square perforation (穿) surrounded by a raised inner rim. Four Chinese characters in clerical script (隸書) are arranged in cruciform fashion around the central hole, reading top-to-bottom then right-to-left: 太平通寶 (Tai Ping Tong Bao). The characters are rendered in a bold, well-formed clerical hand, set within a smooth, flat inner field, bounded by a slightly raised outer rim. The coin's surface shows the characteristic flat, broad flan typical of early Northern Song cash issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | 太平通寶 (Translation: Tai Ping Tong Bao — Taiping era [976-984] / Universal currency) |
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| Mint | Taiyuan-fu, modern-day Taiyuan, Shanxi, China (979-1039) Yongping Mint (永平监), Raozhou, modern-day Boyang, Jiangxi, China (circa 977-1157) |
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