1 Mun Li script

The "Li script" mun was introduced under King Sukjong, whose reign saw a determined but ultimately short-lived push to establish coin use in a Korean economy that remained stubbornly wedded to cloth and grain as exchange media. The court issued repeated edicts compelling merchants to accept copper cash; most were ignored. Circulation was effectively abandoned within a generation of Sukjong's death, leaving these coins stranded in hoards rather than worn smooth by trade.