100 Cash - Xianfeng Yuanbao; Boo-ji

Features

Issuer Empire of China
Emperor Qing dynasty › Xianfeng (咸豐帝) (1850-1861)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1855
Value 100 Cash
Currency Cash (621-1912)
Composition Brass
Diameter 57 mm
Shape Round with a square hole
Technique Cast
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
226076
References Hartill# 22.937
David Hartill; 2017. Cast Chinese Coins (2nd edition). New Generation Publishing, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Four Chinese ideograms read top to bottom, right to left.

Script: Chinese (traditional, regular script)

Lettering:
 咸
寶 元
 豐

Translation:
Xian Feng Yuan Bao
Xianfeng (Emperor) / Original currency

Reverse

Two Manchu words (read vertically) separated by the hole, all with one Chinese ideogram above and one below.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, regular script), Mongolian / Manchu

Lettering:

ᠪᠣᠣ ᠵᡳ

Translation:
Dang Bai / Boo-ji
Value 1 hundred / Boo-ji

Edge

Smooth.

Mint

Jinan Mint, Shandong, China (circa 1361-1855)

Comments

Jinan only had two active furnaces.

Only the local style with Er Bao is known.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1855) 

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