1 Cash - Tianxi Yuanbao

The Western Liao — known in Islamic sources as the Qara Khitai — were Buddhists ruling a predominantly Muslim population across what is now Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang, yet they maintained a policy of remarkable religious tolerance that kept their realm stable for over a century. The Tianxi reign title belonged to the dynasty's last ruler, Kuchlug, who seized power around 1211 and promptly reversed that tolerance, triggering the popular resentment that made Mongol conquest under Jebe effectively frictionless by 1218.

Coins of this type circulated in a region with deep familiarity with Islamic dirhams and Chinese cast coinage simultaneously — an unusual monetary environment for any bronze cash issue.