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1 Cash - Xianfeng Tongbao, Boo-gui
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint, Guizhou (Boo-gui) |
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| Year | 1853-1854 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Cast brass cash coin with a central square perforation. Four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu) are arranged in cruciform fashion around the central hole, read top-to-bottom then right-to-left: 咸 (top), 豐 (bottom), 通 (right), 寶 (left), forming the reign title and currency inscription 咸豐通寶 (Xianfeng Tongbao). The characters are rendered in a straightforward official style with raised relief against an unadorned flat field. The coin lacks an inner or outer rim decoration beyond the plain raised border. |
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| Reverse script | Mongolian / Manchu |
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The Boo-gui mint in Guizhou was among the most isolated and chronically undersupplied casting facilities in the Qing system, struggling throughout the Xianfeng period to source adequate copper. The switch to brass reflected not a deliberate policy but raw material desperation — provincial supply chains had been severed or strained by the Taiping Rebellion, which by 1853 controlled vast stretches of territory between Guizhou and the coastal trade networks the mints depended on.
Output from Boo-gui during this window was limited even by the modest standards of interior provincial mints.