3 Cash - Tianding Tongbao

The Tianwan Kingdom was the short-lived rebel state proclaimed by Chen Youliang in 1359, one of several competing powers that emerged from the collapse of Mongol Yuan authority in southern China. Chen, a former fisherman's son who rose through the Red Turban movement, controlled much of the middle Yangtze region and posed the most serious early military threat to Zhu Yuanzhang — the man who would ultimately found the Ming dynasty. These coins were struck during a window of perhaps twelve to eighteen months before Chen's defeat and death at the Battle of Lake Poyang in 1363.