1 Cash - Guangtian Yuanbao; with crescent

Features

Issuer Former Shu Kingdom (Ten Kingdoms)
Emperor Wang Jian (907-918)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 918
Value 1 Cash
Currency Cash (911-925)
Composition Bronze
Weight 3.45 g
Diameter 22 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round with a square hole
Technique Cast
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
239992
References Hartill# 15.39,
David Hartill; 2017. Cast Chinese Coins (2nd edition). New Generation Publishing, London, United Kingdom.
FD# 774
Fubao Ding, George Albert Fisher; 1990. Fisher's Ding. G. A. Fisher, Littleton, Colorado, United States.

Obverse

Four Chinese ideograms read clockwise.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, clerical script), Chinese (traditional, running script)

Lettering:
 光
寶 天
 元

Translation:
Guang Tian Yuan Bao
Guangtian (6th era of Wang Jian, 918) / Original currency

Reverse

Crescent (facing up) above.

Edge

Smooth.

Mint

Yizhou, modern-day Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Comments

The Guang is written in Running script.

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