Catalog
1 Mun Cho Son Tong Bo, Iron
| Issuer | Joseon (1392-1897) |
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| Year | 1427 |
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| Value | 1 Mun (0.001) |
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| Obverse lettering | 朝 寶 通 鮮 (Translation: Joseon currency) |
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| Mintage | 1427: ND (1427) |
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The Cho Son Tong Bo was introduced under King Sejong as part of a broader push to establish coin-based commerce in a kingdom where cloth and grain stubbornly persisted as the dominant exchange media. Iron-alloy issues like this one were minted precisely because copper was chronically scarce on the peninsula — a problem that would continue to undermine Joseon coinage policy for generations. Popular resistance to metallic currency remained so entrenched that the government eventually abandoned the effort entirely; coins would not circulate with any real success in Korea until the late seventeenth century.