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2 Mu Ho, Earth
| Issuer | Joseon (1392-1897) |
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| Year | 1742-1752 |
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| Currency | Mun (1392-1892) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features two Chinese characters flanking the central square hole, cast in regular script within a plain field. At the top, the character 户 (Ho) serves as the mint mark identifying the Hojo (户曹), the Treasury Department responsible for the issue of this series. At the bottom, the character 地 (Chi), meaning 'Earth,' is the second character of the Thousand Character Classic sequence used to denote the denomination or series order, here indicating the second mun value. The spare, functional design is characteristic of Joseon Dynasty cash coinage produced at the Seoul Treasury mint. |
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| Reverse lettering | 户 地 |
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The "Earth" (地) cash coins of this Joseon series were struck at the Hojo — the Board of Revenue — during a period when the Korean government was aggressively expanding copper cash circulation to suppress the persistent use of rice and cloth as currency. The two-mun denomination saw production distributed across multiple government bureaus, each adding its own mint identifier to the reverse, which is precisely why KM#78 and 79 are catalogued separately despite near-identical specifications.