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1 Cash - Zhizheng Tongbao
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1350-1354 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Reverse description | Central square hole flanked by plain inner and outer rims. A single word in 'Phags-pa script is cast in raised relief above the square hole, reading vertically, denoting a year of the Chinese sexagenary (cyclical) calendar cycle corresponding to the reign year of issue. The reverse field is otherwise plain and undecorated. The 'Phags-pa character serves as the principal identifying element distinguishing individual year issues within this series. |
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| Mintage | 27 (1350) - Hartill#19.93: ꡗꡞꡋ (Yin = Geng Yin; 庚寅) - 28 (1351) - Hartill#19.94: ꡏꡓ (Maw = Xin Mao; 辛卯) - 29 (1352) - Hartill#19.95: ꡚꡞꡋ (Shin = Ren Chen; 壬辰) - 30 (1353) - Hartill# 19.96: ꡄꡜꡞ (Ze = Gui Si; 癸巳) - 31 (1354) - Hartill#19.97ꡟ (U = Jia Wu; 甲午) - |
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Zhizheng Tongbao coinage was issued under the Yuan dynasty's last emperor, Toghon Temür, during a reign already fracturing under peasant rebellions that would ultimately end Mongol rule in China entirely. The Red Turban Revolt had erupted by 1351, and provincial mints were operating under increasingly chaotic administrative conditions — which accounts for the considerable variation in casting quality seen across this type.
Hartill 19.93 places this among the later Yuan cash issues, a series cut short when Zhu Yuanzhang's forces took Nanjing in 1356 and began dismantling Yuan monetary infrastructure in the south.