500 Cash - Xianfeng Yuanbao; Boo-chiowan; Prince Qing Hui
Features
| Issuer |
Empire of China
 |
|---|---|
| Emperor |
Qing dynasty › Xianfeng (咸豐帝) (1850-1861)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Year | 1854 |
| Value | 500 Cash |
| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 49.89 g |
| Diameter | 56 mm |
| Shape | Round with a square hole |
| Technique | Cast |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 225789 |
| References | Hartill# 22.720 David Hartill; 2017. Cast Chinese Coins (2nd Edition). Self-published, London, United Kingdom. Ding Fubao, George Albert Fisher; 1990. Fisher's Ding. G. A. Fisher, Littleton, Colorado, United States. |
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 crescent to the upper left and dot to the upper right.
Scripts: Chinese (traditional, regular script), Mongolian / Manchu
Lettering:
當
ᠪᠣᠣ ᠴᡳᠣᠸᠠᠨ
百五
Translation:
Dang Wu Bai / Boo-chiowan
Value 5 hundred / Boo-chiowan
Edge
Plain
Mint
Prince Qing Hui Mint (Ministry of Revenue), Beijing, China (1854)Comments
These were cast from May 1854 to August 1854 out of pure copper for payment of the army.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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