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who founded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this rebellion lasted until 1864. Despite its brief existence the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is known to have cast a number of different cash coins and varieties of them the denominations of all Shengbao notably weren't written down on the cash coins and had to
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Among the more common types of Shengbao are three types of cash coins, one was a Taiping Tianguo (太平天囯) written in regular script which had the characters Shengbao (聖寶) on their reverse and were issued in the denominations 1 wén (which were known as "Xiaoping", 小平, and weighed 3 grams), 5 wén (5
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of between ten and twenty Taiping Heavenly Kingdom iron cash coins to be melted down to make the furnace; the technician thought that destroying these cash coins would be "a waste" and hid them in his pocket and secretly brought them to his house. Later these iron cash coins passed down to his
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have characters that display an unevenness in the height of the strokes of the Hanzi characters which cause some strokes to rise a bit higher than others. Among the rares varieties of Shengbao cash coins include a Tianguo Taiping (天囯太平) cash coin which has its inscription written in "Song
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are also known to exist but are extremely rare. The reason why the Shengbao tend to be very diverse is because the central government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had allowed local power-holders within their realm to produce their own cash coins within their jurisdiction.
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around the square center hole on the reverse, the Chinese characters of these cash coins were not protruding from the surface as high as those of the other types of Shengbao. These coins were issued in the denominations of 1 wén, 10 wén, 50 wén, and 100 wén.
1163:(安徽钱币) by Wen Su (文甦), the second edition of the "Ancient Chinese Coin Catalogue" (中国近代货币史) edited by Hua Guangpu (华光普) contained information about the cash coins of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. According to the catalogue, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cast 1146:" was to be collected for building these furnaces; this "scrap iron" was often collected from usable iron utensils and other iron tools. In one Chinese village a technician collecting the iron to build the local furnace received a 162:
be deduced by weight which made it an inconvenience for the people, some varieties of Shengbao are extremely rare such as a variant of the Taiping Shengbao with the inscription written as "太平聖宝" (using the
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with the inscription Taiping Tianguo (太平天囯), these cash coins were notably 7.6 centimeters in diameter and were also very thick. The reverse sides of these vault protector coins contained the characters
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Cash coins with the inscription Taiping Tianguo (太平天囯) on the obverse and the Chinese characters Shengbao (聖寶) on the reverse are known to have been cast with inscriptions written in "
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Although very little documentation exists about the coinage manufactured by the Taiping rebels, it is known that in June 1853 the occupying Taiping rebels ordered copper workers in
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with the skills to cast coins to open new furnaces for the production of cash coins with the inscription Tianguo Shengbao that were reported to be "the size of foreign coins" (
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grams), 10 wén (8 grams), 50 wén (12 grams), and 100 wén (31 grams). These coins typically have wide rims which were excellently polished and were based on the
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period-style script" with the Shengbao (聖寶) characters on the reverse side of the coin written in a vertical position which is referred to as
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there are many fakes. There are also many "fantasy" cash coins (杜撰), fraudulent "copies" of coins that never actually existed.
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A specimen that was previously in the collection of Ma Dingxiang and sold at auction held in the year 2011 for an amount of
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During the later part of the Taiping Rebellion, the government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cast a small number of
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between the years 976 and 997, or with any other contemporary rebel coinage that also bear this inscription.
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in order to further accelerate China's economic and industrial development. In the villages "
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The following cash coins are known to have been cast by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom:
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had encouraged every Chinese commune and urban neighbourhood to build their own
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A vault protector coin of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on display at the
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and are heavier than the first type but generally have a lower amount of
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Most cash coins issued by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were made from
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Taiping Tien Kuo - The Peasant Insurrectionary army Coinage
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List of cash coins issued by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
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mint. The second type of common Shengbao originate from
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Grandfather Saved Iron Coins from the Taiping Rebellion
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According to a 2009 article in the numismatic journal
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Vault protector coins of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
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Index

Shengbao (currency)

vault protector coin
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Chinese cash coins
paper money
Tianjing
Nanjing
Taiping Tongbao
Northern Song dynasty
bronze
iron
lead
gold
silver

tael
Taiping Rebellion
God worshippers
Hong Xiuquan
simplified Chinese character

coin collectors
Tianjing
Mexican pesos
Song
regular script

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