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2 Mun Yong; Arranged in order
| Issuer | Korea › Joseon (1392-1897) |
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| Year | 1742-1752 |
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| Value | 2 Mun (0.002) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
| Obverse lettering | 常 寶 通 平 |
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The "Arranged in order" designation refers to a specific casting sequence used at the Joseon government foundries, where coin blanks were organized by assigned numerical or cyclical identifiers before striking — a bureaucratic control measure intended to track output from individual furnaces. Korea's cash coinage of this period was produced at multiple competing government offices simultaneously, each jealously guarding its casting allotments, which is precisely why mint attribution on these pieces remains contested among specialists today.
The decade spanning this issue coincides with the reign of Yeongjo, whose monetary reforms repeatedly attempted to standardize the chaotic proliferation of mun coinage flooding the peninsula. He largely failed.