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| Emittent | Empire of China |
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| Jahr | 1195 |
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| Währung | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Two Chinese characters in Regular script (kaishu) positioned above and below the central square hole, flanking it vertically. The character 漢 (Han) appears above and 元 (Yuan) below, indicating the Hanyang mint and the first year of issue. The reverse field is otherwise plain, with a uniform raised rim encircling the coin. |
| Reversschrift | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
The Qianyuan Tongbao was originally a Tang dynasty type introduced in 758 AD, but iron cash of this inscription reading were produced centuries later under the Southern Song as emergency issues, particularly in regions where copper was too strategically scarce to mint freely. By the late twelfth century, Sichuan province had developed an almost entirely separate iron cash economy — copper coins were effectively prohibited from circulating there to prevent metal drain toward the north and into Jin-controlled territory.
Hartill 17.429 places this piece within that Sichuan iron currency system. Iron cash from this period corrode aggressively, and structurally intact survivors are rarer than the type's original mintage volumes would suggest.