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1 Mun Tong Guk | Kon Won Chung Bo
| Issuer | Goryeo Dynasty |
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| Year | 996 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Obverse lettering | 乾元重寶 |
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The Kon Won Chung Bo is among the earliest cast coins produced on the Korean peninsula, issued under King Seongjong as part of a deliberate push to establish a monetized economy in Goryeo. The experiment largely failed — the Korean population remained stubbornly attached to grain and cloth as exchange media, and these coins saw negligible circulation despite official mandates.
The iron composition itself signals the limited ambitions of the issue; copper was reserved for prestige castings. Multiple die varieties account for the split CK references.