1 Cash Tianguo Taiping / Shengbao

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom controlled a substantial stretch of southeastern China for over a decade, administering its own bureaucracy, calendar, and coinage from the captured city of Nanjing — which it renamed Tianjing, the Heavenly Capital. This cash was struck during the final, increasingly desperate years of the rebellion, as Qing forces supported by the Ever Victorious Army under Frederick Townsend Ward, and later Charles Gordon, systematically retook Taiping-held cities. Nanjing itself fell in July 1864, with Hong Xiuquan dead and the movement effectively finished.

Surviving Taiping coinage is uneven in quality and alloy consistency, reflecting disrupted supply chains during the siege years.