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1 Cash - Tangguo Tongbao, Clerical script, with dot
| Issuer | Southern Tang Kingdom |
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| Year | 959-961 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, clerical script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Southern Tang issued the Tangguo Tongbao in the final years of the reign of Li Jing, the second ruler of a kingdom that controlled the lower Yangtze valley but was by then paying annual tribute to the Later Zhou and, after 960, to the newly proclaimed Song dynasty. The "dot" variety — a small pellet in the reverse field — is a die distinction whose exact significance remains debated, whether as a mint control mark or an artifact of specific casting batches.
Li Jing died in 961, and his successor Li Yu would surrender the kingdom entirely to Song forces in 975.