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100 Cash - Yumin Tongbao, Yi Qian
| Issuer | Fujian, Fiefdom of |
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| Year | 1674-1676 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Cast bronze cash coin bearing the four-character reign legend 裕民通寶 (Yumin Tongbao) arranged in regular script (kaishu) reading top-to-bottom, right-to-left around a central square perforation. The characters are boldly rendered in raised relief against a flat, unadorned field, with a plain raised rim encircling the coin. The casting is characteristic of the Fujian fiefdom production under Geng Jingzhong, with moderately detailed strokes and a slightly irregular flan surface consistent with period workshop practice. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Geng Jingzhong held Fujian as one of the Three Feudatories — the semi-autonomous warlord fiefs that the Qing court had granted to former Ming generals who defected during the conquest. When Wu Sangui raised his rebellion against the Kangxi Emperor in 1673, Geng joined him, and the Yumin Tongbao coinage was struck in Fujian to fund that war. The rebellion collapsed by 1676; Geng surrendered, was initially pardoned, then executed in 1682 after a subsequent rising.
The Yi Qian ("one thousand cash") denomination was purely notional — a fiction of imposed face value over actual metal content.