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10 Cash - Xianfeng Zhongbao, Boo-guwang
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1854-1861 |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Obverse lettering | 咸豐重寶 (Translation: Xianfeng Zhongbao / Xianfeng [Emperor] Heavy Currency) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Boo-guwang (Board of Works, Guangzhou) mint was one of dozens of provincial facilities hastily reactivated during the Xianfeng reign to meet a chronic cash shortage driven by the Taiping Rebellion. Military expenditure had so severely drained the treasury that the Qing court authorized progressively heavier and higher-denomination cash coins — this 10-cash piece among them — as a form of emergency fiscal expansion. The policy was openly inflationary and widely understood as such by the population.
Guangzhou issues from this period are notably inconsistent in alloy and fabric, reflecting disrupted metal supply chains along the Pearl River trade routes.