1 Cash - Tianhan Yuanbao, with crescent

The Former Shu was a short-lived Ten Kingdoms state carved out of Sichuan by Wang Jian, a former Tang military governor who declared himself emperor in 907 as the Tang dynasty collapsed around him. The Tianhan reign period lasted only two years, 917–918, making this issue genuinely scarce by any chronological measure. The crescent mark — punched into the mold or applied to the die — likely denotes a specific furnace or casting workshop within the Chengdu mint operation, a common administrative practice in Sichuan coinage of this period that remains only partially documented.