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10 Cents - Coldland 昊慶通寶, Hauching Tongbao
| Issuer | Taiwan |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Composition | Bronze plated steel |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four large Chinese characters arranged in cruciform reading 昊慶通寶 (Hauching Tongbao), with a floral rosette at the center intersection. An inner beaded border separates the central device from the surrounding legend band, which carries additional Chinese characters reading 顯洲縣造 壬辰年 制錢拾枚 interspersed with asterisk separators. The lower arc of the legend band bears the Latin inscription HAUCHING FIVE YEAR and the Gregorian date 2012. The entire design is executed in high relief against a flat, antiqued field, framed by an outer beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 顯洲縣造 壬辰年 制錢拾枚 昊慶通寶 HAUCHING FIVE YEAR 2012 (Translation: Made in Xianzhou County, 2012, 10 Cents Hauching Tongbao) |
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Hauching Tongbao — rendered in the classical cash-coin script tradition — is a private fantasy issue, not a product of the Central Bank of the Republic of China. Taiwan's official coinage has been decimal since the 1950s, and no denomination reading "10 cents" in this format has ever entered circulation. "Coldland" is the issuer's trade name, placing this squarely in the realm of novelty or souvenir production aimed at collectors familiar with the aesthetic of Song and Ming dynasty cast coinage.