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1 Cash - Tianyou Tongbao, with Yi
| Issuer | Dazhou Kingdom |
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| Year | 1354-1357 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | 天佑通寶 (Translation: Tianyou Tongbao — "Tianyou era circulating treasure", era of Zhang Shicheng, 1354-1367) |
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| Mintage | ND (1354-1357) |
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The Dazhou Kingdom was one of several short-lived rebel regimes that emerged during the collapse of Yuan dynasty control in the 1350s. Its founder, Ming Yuzhen, established a separatist state in Sichuan after the Red Turban uprisings fractured central authority across China. The Tianyou Tongbao series is among the rarer cash coinages of this transitional period, and the "Yi" reverse mark on this example likely denotes a furnace or batch designation — a common but poorly documented practice in rebel-state minting where administrative records simply did not survive the regime's eventual absorption into the early Ming empire in 1371.