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TANG: Kai Yuan, 845-846, AE cash (3.7g), Fuzhou mint, Fujian Province, Fine

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TANG: Kai Yuan, 845-846, AE cash (3.7g), Fuzhou mint, Fujian Province, Fine
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TANG: Kai Yuan, 845-846, AE cash (3.7g), Fuzhou mint, Fujian Province, H-14.57A, fu at left on reverse, graded 75(07) by GBCA Grading Company, natural casting defects, Fine, ex Dr. Dirk Löer Collection. Huichang Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins are a series of Kaiyuan Tongbao coins produced under Emperor Wuzong who was a devout Taoist and used the reign era name of Huìchang. During his 5th year of reign (845) Emperor Wuzong ordered the casting of new coins with the inscription Kaiyuan Tongbao to be manufactured of bronze acquired by melting confiscated statues, copper bells, gongs, incense burners, and other copper items from Buddhist temples. These local mints were under the control of the provincial governors. The New Tang History states that Li Shen, governor of Huainan province, requested that the empire might cast coins bearing the name of the prefecture in which they were cast, and this was agreed. These Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins differed from earlier variants due to the fact that they had a mint name character on their reverse side and eventually 23 mints produced Kaiyuan Tongbao coins with their own mint marks. Huichang Kaiyuan Tongbao coins are also of inferior workmanship compared to earlier coins and are diminutive in size. When Emperor Emperor Xuanzong ascended to the throne in the year 846, the aforementioned policy was reversed, and the new coins were recast to make Buddhist statues.