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2 Cash - Chunxi Yuanbao, Regular script, Shu Tong, iron
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1178-1179 |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse lettering | 舒 同 (Translation: Shu / Tong Shuzhou (city) / Tong`an (mint)) |
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Chunxi Yuanbao iron cash were produced in Sichuan (historically "Shu") under Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song, a reign defined by pragmatic accommodation with the Jurchen Jin dynasty after the failed Longxing offensive of 1163–1164. Iron coinage in Sichuan was not a fallback — it was deliberate policy, maintained for centuries because the region's copper supplies fed the dynasty's bronze output elsewhere. The "Shu Tong" designation identifies this as Shuchuan foundry issue, one of several regional Sichuan mints operating concurrently under provincial monetary administration.
The two-cash denomination in iron circulated almost exclusively within Sichuan; export of the metal coinage beyond the region was periodically prohibited by imperial edict.