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100 Cash - Xianfeng Yuanbao, Boo-u
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint, Baoding |
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| Year | 1854-1856 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Mintage | ND (1854-1856) - Hartill#22.861: Dot of U connected - ND (1854-1856) - Hartill#22.865: Dot of U separated; small characters - ND (1854-1856) - Hartill#22.868: Dot of U separated; large characters - ND (1854-1856) - Hartill#22.872: Coarse appearance - |
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The Xianfeng-era large cash denominations were an emergency fiscal measure forced by the catastrophic costs of suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, which had been tearing through southern China since 1850. The Board of Revenue Mint at Baoding was among several provincial facilities pressed into striking these inflated-denomination pieces — a monetary stopgap that fooled nobody, least of all the merchants who discounted them heavily in daily trade.
Baoding production was inconsistent; the Boo-u mint lacked the furnace capacity to sustain quality across large brass flans at this weight, and surviving examples vary considerably in metal homogeneity.