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2 Mun Yong
| Issuer | Korea |
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| Year | 1678-1752 |
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| Weight | 6.75 g |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse lettering | 营◎◎土 |
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The 2 Mun Sangpyong Tongbo was authorized under King Sukjong in 1678 as part of a deliberate push to monetize the Korean economy, which had operated largely on barter and bolt-cloth exchange for centuries. What followed was one of the more chaotic currency rollouts in East Asian monetary history — dozens of government offices, military bureaus, and provincial authorities were each granted minting rights, resulting in an enormous proliferation of mint marks and a coin whose quality varied wildly depending on who cast it.
KM#288 spans minting across multiple reigns through 1752. The back mint marks remain the primary tool for attributing individual pieces to specific issuing bureaus.