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3 Cash - Zhiyuan Tongbao, 'Phags-pa script
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1285-1294 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1285-1294) |
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The Zhiyuan Tongbao series was issued under Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty, and this three-cash denomination carries inscriptions in 'Phags-pa — the Tibetan-derived script commissioned by Kublai in 1269 specifically to serve as a unified writing system across his multilingual empire. The script was designed by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa at imperial command, but it never achieved widespread literacy among the population and fell out of administrative use within decades of Kublai's death.
Its appearance on bronze coinage is relatively brief, confined to the Zhiyuan period reign issues of the 1280s–90s.