10 Cash - Hongwu Tongbao, Fu

The Hongwu Emperor's cash coinage was among the most administratively complex of any Chinese dynasty — denominations ran from 1 to 100 cash, each struck at provincial mints required to stamp their location and value on the reverse. The 福 (Fu) mint designation identifies Fujian province, one of the more active southern mints in the early Ming system. Hongwu eventually suspended copper cash entirely in 1393 in favor of paper currency, making the full denomination series a compressed production window of roughly two decades.