1 Mun Ho

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.