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10 Cash - Zhizheng Tongbao
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1358-1359 |
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| Value | 10 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole (cash hole) surrounded by a plain inner rim and a broad flat field. Four Chinese ideograms in regular script (kaishu) are arranged in the traditional cross-reading order — top, bottom, right, left — forming the reign-title legend 至正通寶 (Zhizheng Tongbao). The characters are boldly cast in raised relief against the flat field, with well-defined strokes characteristic of Yuan-dynasty imperial coinage. A plain outer rim frames the entire obverse. |
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| Reverse description | Central square hole flanked by a plain inner rim and a broad field. Above the hole, a ʼPhags-pa script character group is cast in raised relief, reading vertically and denoting the cyclical-year designation Wu Xu (戊戌, year 35 of the sexagenary cycle, corresponding to 1358). Below the hole, a single Chinese ideogram 十 (shí, meaning "ten") with an associated dot indicates the denomination of ten cash. The combination of ʼPhags-pa and Chinese scripts on the reverse is characteristic of later Yuan-dynasty large-denomination cash coinage. |
| Reverse script | ʼPhags-pa, Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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