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2 Mun Kang
| Issuer | Korea |
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| Year | 1742-1752 |
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| Currency | Kingdom of Joseon - Mun (1633-1892) |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole flanked by four Chinese ideograms arranged in cruciform pattern around the perforation. Reading top to bottom, the characters 常平 (Sang Pyong) identify the Sangpyeong Treasury, the Korean Joseon Dynasty administrative department responsible for currency issuance. Reading right to left, the characters 通寶 (Tong Bo) denote the coin as standard currency. The characters are rendered in a formal clerical script style typical of Joseon cast coinage, set within an unadorned circular field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 2 Mun issues of this period were produced by multiple casting offices across Joseon Korea simultaneously, each authorized to strike coinage to meet chronic shortages of circulating bronze. The "Kang" designation identifies the specific furnace or office responsible — a system that created dozens of distinct varieties now catalogued separately. KM#1009 places this piece among the mid-eighteenth century issues tied to expanded military bureau minting, authorized as the government scrambled to fund border defense expenditures following decades of fiscal strain after the Manchu invasions.