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1 Cash - Zhenghe Tongbao, Seal script, iron
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1111-1118 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Baoxin Mint (宝新监), Rongzhou,modern-day Rongshui, Guangxi, China (circa 1116) Fengyuan Mint (丰远监), Jiazhou(Jiading-du), modern-day Leshan, Sichuan, China (?-1059; 1069-1129; 1153-?) Fumin Mint (阜民监), Huizhou,Guangdong, China (1067) Guangzhou Mint (广州钱监),Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Hezhou Mint (贺州钱监), modern-day Hezhou, Guangxi, China Huimin Mint (惠民监), Qiongzhou,modern-day Qionglai, Sichuan, China Jizhong Mint (济众监), Xingzhou,modern-day Lüeyang, Shaanxi, China (1006-1128) Kangzhou Mint (康州钱监), modern-day Deqing, Guangdong, China Shaoxing Mint (绍兴监), Lizhou,modern-day Guangyuan, Sichuan, China (1005-1128; 1145-?) Tongbao Mint (通宝监), Yongzhou,modern-day Nanning, Guangxi, China (circa 1116) Xining Mint (熙宁监), Hengzhou,modern-day Hengyang, Hunan, China (1068) Yazhou, modern-day Ya'an,Sichuan, China (970-1016; 1080-?; 1210-?) |
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The Zhenghe Tongbao was issued under Emperor Huizong during one of the Northern Song dynasty's most administratively ambitious — and fiscally strained — periods. Huizong's court produced an extraordinary number of coin types, including parallel issues in bronze and iron, and in both regular and seal script. Iron coinage was not prestige currency; it served regions where copper was scarce or where the state needed to conserve metal for other uses, particularly in border areas subject to military pressure from the Jurchen Jin.
Huizong himself was a calligrapher of the first rank, and the seal script varieties of his reign coins are among the few in Chinese numismatic history where imperial authorship of the inscription is plausibly claimed.