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2 Cash - Yuanfeng Tongbao, Seal script, with crescent
| Issuer | Imperial Chinese Government (Northern Song Dynasty) |
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| Year | 1078-1085 |
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| Value | 2 Cash |
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| Obverse lettering | 元 豐 通 寶 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Yuanfeng reign period under Emperor Shenzong was consumed by the bitter political fallout from Wang Anshi's New Policies — a sweeping reform program that had divided the Song bureaucracy for over a decade before Shenzong's death in 1085 ended the experiment. Cash production during these years was substantial, distributed across multiple furnace workshops, and the crescent privy mark on this piece almost certainly traces it to a specific casting site, though the precise attribution remains disputed among specialists working from Hartill's framework.