Yongli was the last emperor of the Southern Ming resistance, a court in perpetual flight — from Guangzhou to Guilin to Yunnan, and finally into Burma, where he was handed over to Qing forces and executed in 1662. The coins bearing his era name were struck not just during his lifetime but continued circulating under Zheng Jing on Taiwan as part of a deliberate rejection of Qing legitimacy, which explains the extended date range running more than two decades past the emperor's death.
Hartill 21.81 specifically denotes the seal script variant, a more formal and archaic script choice that distinguishes it from the running-script issues of the same reign.
Yongli was the last emperor of the Southern Ming resistance, a court in perpetual flight — from Guangzhou to Guilin to Yunnan, and finally into Burma, where he was handed over to Qing forces and executed in 1662. The coins bearing his era name were struck not just during his lifetime but continued circulating under Zheng Jing on Taiwan as part of a deliberate rejection of Qing legitimacy, which explains the extended date range running more than two decades past the emperor's death.
Hartill 21.81 specifically denotes the seal script variant, a more formal and archaic script choice that distinguishes it from the running-script issues of the same reign.