10 Cash - Daoguang Posthumous Tongbao, Boo-chuan, Xin Shi, Kucha for Urumchi

Cast in Kucha for redistribution to Urumchi, this piece belongs to the brief monetary rehabilitation of Xinjiang following Zuo Zongtang's reconquest of the region from Yaqub Beg's Kokandi-backed regime — a campaign completed by 1878 after nearly two decades of rebellion and foreign interference. The posthumous Daoguang reign title, applied here decades after that emperor's death in 1850, reflects the Qing practice of issuing transitional coinages under earlier reign names while new administrative infrastructure was being established.

Kucha was one of several southern Xinjiang mints reactivated specifically to supply cash coinage to a region whose monetary economy had been largely destroyed by the intervening years of conflict.