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10 Cash - Tongzhi Posthumous Tongbao, Ku Shi, Kucha
| Issuer | South Xinjiang |
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| Year | 1883-1885 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse lettering | 庫 ᡴᡠᠴᠠ كوچا 十 (Translation: Ku / Shi / Kucha / Kuca Kucha / 10 Cash / Kucha (mint) / Kucha (mint)) |
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Struck at Kucha (Kuqa) in the immediate aftermath of the Qing reconquest of Xinjiang under Zuo Zongtang, this issue belongs to a brief window of monetary rehabilitation following nearly two decades of disruption under Yaqub Beg's Kokandi-backed Emirate of Kashgaria. The posthumous attribution to the Tongzhi reign — who had died in 1875 — rather than the reigning Guangxu emperor is an administrative peculiarity of the reconquest period, when restored mints briefly issued coins in the name of the preceding sovereign.
Kucha's mint had been dormant or operating under Yaqub Beg's own coinage system since the early 1860s.