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3 Chon Ho
| Issuer | Korea |
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| Year | 1882-1883 |
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| Weight | 10.6 g |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the country name and denomination rendered in Chinese characters arranged in the traditional East Asian reading format: the country name reads vertically from top to bottom and the denomination reads from right to left. The legend 大東 (Great Eastern Kingdom) flanks the denomination 錢三 (3 Chon), together identifying both the issuing state and the face value of the piece. The field is otherwise unadorned, consistent with the austere typological conventions of late nineteenth-century Korean silver coinage. |
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Korea's first domestically struck machine-made coinage, authorized under King Gojong as part of the Joseon court's tentative engagement with Western monetary practice. The coins were produced at the Jeonhwanguk mint in Seoul, which had been established with Japanese technical assistance — a politically charged arrangement given the competing pressures Japan, China, and Western powers were simultaneously exerting on the peninsula.
The series was short-lived. Minting effectively ceased after 1883, and the denomination saw no meaningful successor for several years.