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1 Cash - Tianqi Tongbao, with dot
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1621-1627 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Mintage | ND (1621-1627) - Hartill#20.183: Dot above - ND (1621-1627) - Hartill#20.184: Dot to the right - ND (1621-1627) - Hartill#20.185: Dot below - ND (1621-1627) - Hartill#20.186: Large dot to the right - ND (1621-1627) - Hartill#20.187: Large dot below - ND (1621-1627) - Hartill#20.188: Large dot to the left - |
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The Tianqi emperor's reign was consumed by the factional warfare between eunuch official Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Academy reformers — a political paralysis that left the Ming administration increasingly hollow. Coinage quality during this period deteriorated markedly, with provincial mints operating under inconsistent supervision. The dot variety catalogued here under Hartill 20.183 is a positional mintmark variant, distinguishing output from specific casting workshops at a time when centralized quality control had effectively collapsed.