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1 Cash - Songyuan (large characters, crescent on reverse)
Country: China - Empire
(China)
Denomination: 1 Cash
Year: (960-976)
Material: Cast Bronze
Weight: 3.5 g
Shape: Round with a square hole
Diameter: 23.9 mm
Type: Common coin
Catalog list: china empirechina
Description:
Obverse
Chinese ideograms:
- Top to bottom: 宋元 = Song Yuan, means "coin of Song"; under emperor Taizu, 1st emperor of the Song Dynasty (960-976).
- Right to left: 通寶 = Tong bao, means "currency".
Reverse
Crescent variously located.
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