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100 Wu Zhou - Liu Bei Shu
| Issuer | Shu, State of |
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| Year | 214-221 |
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| Value | 100 Wu Zhou |
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| Obverse lettering | 直 銖 五 百 (Translation: Zhi Bai Wu Zhu Value one hundred Wu Zhou) |
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| Mintage | ND (214-221) - Hartill#11.1: Regular type - ND (214-221) - Hartill#11.1A: Smaller type - |
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The Wu Zhu ("five grain") denomination had been the backbone of Han coinage for nearly four centuries before Liu Bei's Shu state revived it — not as continuity, but as a political claim. By casting Wu Zhus in Sichuan after seizing Yi Province in 214, Liu Bei was asserting legitimate succession to the Han dynasty at a moment when Cao Cao controlled the emperor and the northern mints. The coinage was a declaration as much as a currency.
Shu Wu Zhus are typically light and crudely cast relative to Eastern Han issues, a reflection of the limited bronze resources available in the Sichuan basin.