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3 Cash - Daguan Tongbao, iron
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1107-1110 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Obverse description | Central square perforation (穿) surrounded by a raised inner rim, with four Chinese characters arranged in cruciform reading order — top, bottom, right, left — rendered in the elegant Slender Gold (瘦金体) calligraphic style attributed to Emperor Huizong himself. The legend 大觀通寶 (Daguan Tongbao) occupies the four cardinal fields between the central hole and the outer raised rim. The flat, unadorned field and the refined, attenuated brushstroke-like strokes of the characters are characteristic of Huizong's celebrated imperial script. The coin is cast in iron, and the obverse surface exhibits the typical roughness and oxidation associated with Song dynasty iron cash. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (Traditional, Slender Gold script) |
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| Reverse description | Plain and uniface reverse, devoid of any inscription, decoration, or mint mark. The surface is flat with a raised inner rim bordering the central square perforation and a raised outer rim at the coin's edge, both consistent with standard Northern Song dynasty cast cash coinage. The iron substrate has developed a heavy patina of rust and oxidation across the entire reverse field. |
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