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1 Mon 'Sekōtsūhō' - Shō Toku
| Issuer | Ryukyu, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1461-1469 |
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| Weight | 3.58 g |
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| Obverse description | Cast copper-alloy cash coin of standard East Asian form, featuring a central square hole flanked by four Chinese characters arranged in cruciform reading order around the perforation. The legend reads clockwise from the top: 世 (top), 通 (right), 寶 (left), 高 (bottom), together forming the four-character inscription 世高通寶 (Sekōtsūhō), meaning 'Currency of Sekō.' The characters are rendered in regular script (kaishu) in raised relief against a flat field, with a plain raised rim encircling the coin. The overall execution is typical of Ryukyuan cast coinage of the mid-fifteenth century, showing somewhat irregular casting surfaces consistent with the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | 世 寶 通 高 (Translation: Currency of Sekō) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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