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50 Cash - Xianfeng Zhongbao, Boo-jyi
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint, Qing Dynasty |
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| Year | 1854-1855 |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1854-1855) |
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The Xianfeng-era large cash issues were emergency coinage in every meaningful sense. By the early 1850s, the Taiping Rebellion had severed supply lines to the southern copper mines, and the Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing faced a chronic metal shortage. Brass — a zinc-copper alloy — was adopted as a substitute precisely because it could be sourced more readily than the traditional bronze.
The 50-cash denomination was part of a broader debasement scheme that introduced inflated face values wildly disconnected from actual metal content, collapsing public confidence almost immediately. Circulation was brief and contested; merchants routinely refused the higher denominations at face value.