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| Emittent | Empire of China |
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| Jahr | 1188-1189 |
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| Material | Iron |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Central square perforation surrounded by a raised square rim, with four Chinese ideograms in Regular script (kaishu) disposed in the four quadrants of the field and read clockwise from the top: 淳 (Chun), 熙 (Xi), 通 (Tong), 寶 (Bao). The legends are separated by the arms of the inner square, and the whole is enclosed within a plain raised outer rim. The casting surface shows typical Song-dynasty iron cash characteristics with a slightly granular field texture. |
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| Aversschrift | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Chunxi was the reign era of Emperor Xiaozong of Song, and by the 1180s the Southern Song administration was running parallel iron and bronze cash economies across different regions — iron currency was largely confined to Sichuan and parts of Hubei, where bronze shortages and military expenditure against the Jin dynasty made iron the pragmatic alternative. This piece's clockwise reading and the inclusion of a reign year on the reverse narrow its attribution to a specific foundry sequence documented by Hartill, distinguishing it from the far more common non-dated issues of the same era.