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MIN: Wang Shenzhi, 909-945, lead large cash (32.2g), VF

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MIN: Wang Shenzhi, 909-945, lead large cash (32.2g), VF
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MIN: Wang Shenzhi, 909-945, lead large cash (32.2g), H-15.51, kai yuan tong bao on obverse, min above, crescent below, for use in the Fujian area, usual oxidation, graded 'Genuine' by GBCA Grading Company, VF. Min was one of the 'Ten Kingdoms' and it existed in a mountainous region of modern-day Fujian province of China and had a history of quasi-independent rule with its capital at Fuzhou. It was founded by Wang Shenzhi. His father was given the title of Surveillance Commissioner in 892. Wang Shenzhi himself was named military commissioner. In 909, in the wake of the collapse of the Tang Dynasty two years earlier, he named himself the Prince of Min. Wang Shenzhi's son declared himself the Emperor of Min in 933. At that point, his father was posthumously named Min Taizu. The capital of the Min Kingdom was then known as Changle, the present day Fuzhou. The kingdom was essentially limited to modern-day Fujian Province in China's southeast. The Kingdom of Min was conquered by the Southern Tang Kingdom in 945 AD.