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10 Cash - Yongli Tongbao, with Yi Fen, large size
| Issuer | Southern Ming regimes |
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| Year | 1646-1659 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse field centered on the square central hole, bearing two large Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu): 壹 (Yi, meaning 'one') above the hole and 分 (Fen) below, together denoting a denomination equivalent to one fen of silver. The characters are boldly cast and well-defined, occupying most of the available field. A wide, flat raised outer rim frames the reverse, consistent with the heavy-module fabric of this Southern Ming emergency issue. The field surface is unadorned apart from the denomination inscription. |
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The Yongli Emperor — the last credible claimant of the Ming dynasty — spent his entire reign in flight, governing from a succession of southern provinces and briefly into Burma as Qing forces closed in. His coinage reflects this: minted across multiple locations with no central authority over production, the Tongbao series shows extraordinary variation in fabric, module, and calligraphic style depending on where and when a given piece was cast. The Yi Fen reverse denomination mark on this large ten-cash piece indicates an attempt to impose a rational tariff system on issues that were, in practice, deeply inconsistent.
Yongli was strangled by bowstring in Yunnan in 1662, three years after the nominal end of this issue's production window.