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| Emittent | Empire of China |
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| Jahr | 759-762 |
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| Nennwert | 50 Cash |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Four Chinese ideograms in clerical script (lishu) are arranged in cruciform fashion around the central square hole, read in the traditional sequence: top, bottom, right, left. The characters 乾元重寶 (Qianyuan Zhongbao) are rendered in bold, well-defined relief. The obverse field is plain, and the coin is bounded by a raised inner rim encircling the square perforation and a raised outer rim defining the coin's edge. |
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| Auflage | ND (759-762) - Hartill#14.107: Circle above - ND (759-762) - Hartill#14.108: Circle below - |
| Zusätzliche Informationen |
The Qianyuan Zhongbao was introduced in 759 AD as the Tang court scrambled to finance military operations against An Lushan's rebellion — one of the most destructive civil wars in Chinese history, ultimately killing tens of millions. The 50-cash nominal value was a fiscal fiction; no one accepted these at face value, and the resulting inflation accelerated the dynasty's broader economic collapse.
The inner circle variety (Hartill 15.107) is among the more elusive sub-types within the Qianyuan series, distinguished from the plain-reverse issues struck concurrently at multiple provincial furnaces operating under increasingly loose imperial oversight.