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1 Mon 'Kan'eitsūhō' Iron alloy, 千 'Sen'
| Issuer | Tokugawa Shogunate |
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| Year | 1768 |
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| Weight | 3 g |
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| Obverse description | Round cast iron-alloy coin featuring a central square perforation surrounded by a raised square inner rim. The four-character reign legend 寛永通寶 (Kan'ei Tsūhō, meaning 'Currency of the Kan'ei Period') is arranged in the traditional East Asian coin format: 寛 (above), 通 (right), 寶 (below), and 永 (left) around the square hole. The characters are rendered in a bold, rectilinear clerical script style within a plain flat field, bounded by a raised outer rim. The overall surface shows the characteristic granular texture of the sand-cast production method. |
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| Obverse lettering | 寛 寶 通 永 (Translation: Currency of Kan`ei Period) |
| Reverse description | Plain, largely unadorned reverse displaying a central square perforation enclosed by a raised square boss and an outer raised rim. A single Chinese character 千 (sen, meaning 'one thousand' or used here as a mint/batch identifier) appears above the square hole, cast in low relief against a flat, granular field. The remainder of the reverse field is devoid of additional ornamentation, consistent with standard Edo-period iron mon coinage practice. |
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