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1 Cash - Xuantong Tongbao, Boo-chiowan, large type
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint (戶部局), Beijing |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Cast reverse featuring a central square perforation flanked by two Manchu (Qing script) characters in relief, reading ᠪᠣᠣ (Boo) to the right and ᠴᡳᠣᠸᠠᠨ (Chiowan) to the left, identifying the issuing mint as the Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing. The characters are rendered in the standard Manchu clerical style typical of Qing dynasty cash coinage, with plain inner and outer rims. The field is flat and unadorned, consistent with the utilitarian aesthetics of late imperial cast coinage. |
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Xuantong was three years old when this cash was struck in his name. The Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing had been modernizing under Qing reform programs, but these late imperial cast coins represent a deliberate conservative gesture — the dynasty issuing traditional square-holed cash even as machine-struck copper cents were already displacing them in daily commerce. The large-type designation distinguishes this from contemporaneous smaller-flan issues of the same reign, a distinction catalogued by Hartill and confirmed by die study.
Xuantong abdicated in February 1912. This type had fewer than three years of official production behind it.