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1 Cash - Yongli Tongbao, Ming
| Issuer | Southern Ming regimes |
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| Year | 1646-1659 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Reverse lettering | 明 (Translation: Ming [indicating the Board of Works]) |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Yongli reign was the longest and most desperate of the Southern Ming resistance governments, following the Qing conquest of Beijing in 1644. The Yongli Emperor fled repeatedly — through Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan — and his court struck coinage at whatever provincial facilities remained available, which accounts for the considerable variation in fabric and casting quality seen across surviving examples. He eventually fled into Burma in 1659, where he was later handed over to Wu Sangui and executed in Yunnan in 1662.