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5 Cash Taiping Tianguo / Shengbao, vertical
| Issuer | Taiping Heavenly Kingdom |
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| Year | 1856-1862 |
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| Value | 5 Cash |
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| Reverse description | Cast reverse featuring two large Chinese characters arranged vertically above and below the central square hole, reading 聖 (Sheng, top) and 寶 (Bao, bottom), meaning 'Sacred Currency.' The characters are boldly rendered in raised relief with a free, expressive calligraphic style, set within a plain, unadorned field bounded by a simple raised rim. The surface exhibits the typical patination and slight casting irregularities associated with mid-nineteenth-century Taiping Kingdom coinage. |
| Reverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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