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5 Cash - Yongli Tongbao, with Wu Li
| Issuer | Southern Ming regimes |
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| Year | 1646-1659 |
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| Value | 5 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Cast brass cash coin of standard Chinese square-holed round form, bearing the four-character reign title legend 永曆通寶 (Yongli Tongbao) arranged in regular script (kaishu) in cruciform reading order around the central square perforation: 永 (Yong) above, 曆 (Li) below, 通 (Tong) to the right, and 寶 (Bao) to the left. The characters are boldly rendered in raised relief against a flat field, framed by an inner raised square rim surrounding the hole and an outer raised circular rim at the coin's periphery. The overall surface exhibits a dark olive-green patina consistent with aged brass. The style and casting quality are characteristic of Southern Ming emergency coinage produced during the Yongli reign period. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse field with a central square perforation flanked by two Chinese characters in raised regular script (kaishu): 五 (Wu, meaning 'five') positioned above the square hole and 厘 (Li, meaning 'li', a fractional unit of silver) positioned below. The characters are cleanly cast in bold relief and read vertically, denoting the coin's exchange value of five li of silver. Inner and outer raised rims frame the composition, and the flat fields between the characters and the rims are undecorated. The surface carries the same dark green patina as the obverse, typical of Southern Ming brass cash of this series. |
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