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1 Cash - Yongli Tongbao
| Issuer | Southern Ming regimes |
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| Year | 1646-1659 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
| Obverse lettering | 永曆通寶 (Translation: Yongli Tongbao - Yongli (Emperor) / Universal currency) |
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The Yongli reign was the longest and most desperate of the Southern Ming resistance governments, retreating progressively southward and westward under Qing military pressure — from Guangdong to Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, and ultimately into Burma, where the Yongli Emperor was finally handed over to Wu Sangui's forces in 1662 and strangled. Cash coinage was struck at multiple scattered mints across this shifting territorial rump, which accounts for the considerable variation in fabric and casting quality seen across surviving examples. Hartill distinguishes several subtypes under 21.45.