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2 Mun Yong
| Issuer | Korea |
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| Year | 1752 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole surrounded by four Chinese ideograms arranged in cruciform fashion within a plain inner ring. Reading clockwise from top: 常 (Sang), 寶 (Bo), 平 (Pyong), 通 (Tong), forming the two-part legend 常平 (Sangpyong, denoting the Sangpyong Office, the Joseon Dynasty bureau responsible for currency) read top-to-bottom, and 通寶 (Tongbo, meaning 'circulating treasure' or 'current coin') read right-to-left. The field is plain, and the outer rim is raised and undecorated. |
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| Reverse lettering | 营 二 木 (Translation: Treasury Department, series 'tree', serial number 2) |
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Struck under King Yeongjo during the mid-Joseon period, the 2 Mun coinage was part of a broader effort to expand copper and brass cash circulation in a kingdom that had long struggled to sustain a functioning coin economy — much of the population still defaulted to rice and cloth as exchange media well into the eighteenth century. The Joseon government operated multiple casting furnaces across the country, and the resulting coins vary considerably in alloy quality and flan preparation depending on which foundry produced them.
KM#294 is distinguished by its two-mun denomination, a value increment introduced to facilitate larger transactions without resorting to bundles of single-mun pieces.