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300 Cash Coin Tally
| Issuer | Lin'an Prefecture (Southern Song Dynasty) |
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| Year | 1260-1264 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Reverse description | Rectangular reverse with a small circular suspension hole at the top center, mirroring the obverse layout. Five boldly cast Chinese characters in regular script (kaishu) are arranged vertically below the hole, reading 準叁佰文省. The raised inscription denotes the face value of the tally, with characters in confident relief against a plain field consistent with Song dynasty cast bronze monetary tallies. |
| Reverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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Lin'an — modern Hangzhou — served as the Southern Song capital after the Jin dynasty's conquest of the north drove the court south in 1127. By the 1260s, the dynasty was in terminal crisis: Mongol forces under Kublai Khan were systematically dismantling what remained of Song territorial control, and the court's monetary policy reflected that desperation. Large-denomination bronze tallies like this 300-cash piece were issued as the government struggled to manage currency supply without adequate copper reserves, effectively forcing high face-value tokens into a circulation the market increasingly distrusted.
Lin'an fell to Kublai's forces in 1276, just over a decade after this issue.