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1 Cash - Tongzhi Tongbao, Boo-gui
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1862-1864 |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Central square hole flanked on either side by a single Manchu character, the two together reading 'Boo-gui' — the Manchu rendering of the mint name for Guizhou. The characters are cast in a clean, upright style within a plain field, enclosed by a raised inner square rim and an outer circular rim, with no further ornamentation. |
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Boo-gui was the Manchu rendering of Guizhou province's mint designation, and the Guizhou mint had a troubled history even by Qing standards — chronic copper shortages in the interior southwest forced repeated recourse to brass alloys well before other provincial mints made the same substitution. The Tongzhi reign opened against the backdrop of the Taiping and Miao rebellions simultaneously destabilizing Guizhou, meaning actual mint output during 1862–1864 was irregular and often interrupted.
Hartill 22.1141 is among the scarcer Tongzhi provincial issues precisely because the Guizhou mint never achieved stable production runs in this period.