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1 Mun Ho
| Issuer | Kingdom of Joseon |
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| Year | 1731 |
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| Diameter | 30 mm |
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| Obverse description | Round cast brass coin with a central square hole framed by a raised inner rim. Four Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu) are disposed in cruciform arrangement around the central perforation, reading clockwise from the top: 常 (top), 通 (right), 平 (bottom), 寶 (left), forming the legend 常平通寶 (Sangpyong Tongbo, meaning 'Ever-Normal Circulating Treasure'). The field is flat and unadorned, bounded by a raised outer rim. The coin is cast in the traditional East Asian cash-coin style. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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The 1 Mun "Ho" coins were struck at the Hullyeondogam, the Military Training Command in Seoul, which operated its own mint as one of several dozen government bureaus authorized to produce cash coinage under the Joseon system. The "Ho" character cast into these pieces identifies that issuing office — a necessary administrative marker when so many agencies were producing near-identical coins simultaneously. Keeping the currency supply attributable to specific bureaus was one of the few controls the court maintained over an otherwise loosely managed monetary system.