100 Cash Ding Ping Yi Bai Shu late Type 1

The State of Shu, the weakest of the Three Kingdoms in both population and resource base, resorted to a series of inflated-denomination cash coins to fund its military campaigns against Wei and Wu. A coin nominally worth 100 cash but weighing under half a gram represents fiscal desperation made metal — the gap between face value and intrinsic worth was among the most extreme in Han-successor coinage. Shu collapsed in 263 when Wei forces under Deng Ai crossed the Yinping trail and Liu Shan surrendered without a final engagement, ending the mint's output abruptly.