User:Donald Trung/Sangpyeong Tongbo (상평통보, 常平通寶) expansion (late 2019)



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 * ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 11:25, 1 October 2019 (UTC).

Mint marks
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Numbers, Stars, Suns, and Man
In the year 1742 special characters began appearing on Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins, many of these special characters were used to indicate which furnace had been used to produce them or to which "series" they belonged. The series number may be to the left, right or bottom of the center hole. The furnace designator may be either a numeral or a character from the Thousand Character Classic.

While most of these were Hanja characters, some also had dots, circles, crescents, and horizontal lines which were used to represent things like the stars, the sun, the moon, and men.

Thousand Character Classic
Some Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins contained characters from the Thousand Character Classic (Ch'ŏnjamun) to determine by which furnace they were cast, the Thousand Character Classic was used in the far east for teaching Chinese characters and was a large poem which consisted of 250 phrases with each one of these phrases being only composed 4 Hanja characters. The entire Thousand Character Classic is composed of 1000 Chinese characters and no point is a single character repeated.

From the year 1742 the first 44 characters of the Thousand Character Classic began being used on some Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins to indicate furnace number, while some Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins used Chinese numerals specifically for this purpose, others used this system because of the non-repetitive nature of the Thousand Character Classic it is often used as a numbering system for the numbers 1 to 1000. The characters of the Thousand Character Classic were usually placed at the bottom (often right below the square centre hole) on the reverse side of the Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins.

The Five Elements
Some Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins used the five elements (오행) to indicate furnace numbers or "series" number.

The Ten Celestial Stems
The Ten Celestial Stems (천간) were used as another "numbering" system for Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins for furnace or "series" numbers.

The Twelve Terrestrial Branches
Like how the Ten Celestial Stems are used for numbering Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins, the Twelve Terrestrial Branches (지지, or "Twelve Earthly Branches"), another system used in the traditional Chinese calendar's Sexagenary cycle (육십갑자), was used to indicate furnace or "series" numbers.

Cash coins with the character "☳"
A small number of 2 mun Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins (當二錢, dangijun, "Value Two (Coins)") manufactured by the T'ongyong Naval Office with the Eight Trigrams (팔괘) character on them. The character "☳" ("Thunder") was written on their reverses as well as a number of other Hanja characters.

Miscellaneous characters
There are also a vast number of miscellaneous Hanja characters found on the reverse side of Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins of which their meaning or what they represent is currently not known.

Some of these Chinese characters include:

Struck coinage
During the 1880s and 1890s the Korean government had experimented with several holed machine-struck coin designs, it is unknown if some of these coins entered circulation. During this period the Central Government Mint (典圜局, 전원국) created a machine-struck brass Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coin with a round centre hole.

While it would be in the year 1892 that the over 250 year production of the Sangpyeong Tongbo series of cash coins would come to an end, a decade earlier in 1882 (or Gojong 19), the Korean government had experimented with creating machine-struck coinage based on Western designs and design patterns. The first issues were made from silver and lacked the iconic square centre hole designs of earlier and contemporary Korean coinages.

When Korean opened up its port cities to trade with foreign businessmen, it became apparent that the small denomination Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins were not convenient at all for doing business which require larger transactions to take place, this inspired the creation of a new series of coinage made from silver. All of these coins had the characters "大東" (대동, dae dong, literally translated as "the Great East" which was one of the alternative names of Korea) in their obverse inscriptions. All of these new milled coins were manufactured by the Treasury Department Mint (戶曹局, 호조국), this mint was also responsible for the manufacture of Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins. A major difference being that the "戶" (호) mint mark on the milled coinage was located in the middle of a circle, this circle itself was situated in the centre of the reverse side of the coin and was surrounded by coloured enamel (which was coloured either blue, green, or black). Specimens without the coloured cloisonné are valued at about one half the normal valuations of the coloured Dae Dong coins. There are many types of trial sets of 1, 2, and 3 jeon in existence.

List of Dae Dong coins:

Other than the overal design patterns there are multiple varieties of the 3 jeon (錢, 전) coin, these include variants based on character sizes (large character, medium character, and small character).

These new machine-struck coins did not manage to stabilise the Korean monetary system, this was due to the rising price of silver as well as the high cost of acquiring the machines necessary for their production and the production process itself. It became a huge issue when the yangban nobility started hoarding these coins for export at a profit and their production was stopped as a result in June of the year 1883, only a year after their initial introduction. The same year the Korean government would purchase equipment for the production of milled coinage from the German Empire.

Half a decade later between the years 1886 and 1888 ("開國 497", or Kaeguk 497) the Korean government mint in Seoul (京成典圜局, 경성전환국) began producing a minor number of machine-struck coins denominated in mun (文, 문) and hwan ("warn", "whan" 圜, 환), these coins had coin patterns similar to those of contemporary Japanese coins. In this system the mun was worth $1/undefined$ "warn". They would only be produced in three different denominations, these were the 5 mun (5 文), 10 mun (10 文), and 1 warn (1 圜).

List of machine-struck coins produced by the Korean government mint in Seoul:

Only a total of 1,300 coins of the 1 warn denomination were struck, making them quite rare.

Banknotes
In the year 1900, which was 8 years after the currency had been abolished, the Japanese-owned Keijo Pusan Railway Company issued banknotes denominated in 50, 100, 300, and 500 mun. The Tong Sun Tai Hoa also issued a banknote with the denomination of 10.000 mun.

Dutch part to translate

 * User:Donald Trung/Sangpyeong Tongbo (상평통보, 常平通寶) expansion (late 2019)/Dutch section on non-mint mint marks. ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:13, 28 September 2019 (UTC).

Standard (modern) coin template layout

 * User:Donald Trung/Sangpyeong Tongbo (상평통보, 常平通寶) expansion (late 2019)/Standard (modern) coin template layout. ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:43, 27 September 2019 (UTC).

Early Joseon cash coins

 * User:Donald Trung/Sangpyeong Tongbo (상평통보, 常平通寶) expansion (late 2019)/Early Joseon cash coins. ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 21:04, 27 September 2019 (UTC).

Korean Qianziwen

 * User:Donald Trung/Sangpyeong Tongbo (상평통보, 常平通寶) expansion (late 2019)/Korean Qianziwen. ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 18:46, 28 September 2019 (UTC).

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More sources

 * http://contents.history.go.kr/front/eng/tz/view.do?levelId=tz_b25 ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:54, 30 September 2019 (UTC).


 * http://www.koreamint.com/goods/detail.do?gno=10070&cate=1857 ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 07:40, 29 September 2019 (UTC).


 * https://baike.sogou.com/m/v44424178.htm ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 22:20, 30 September 2019 (UTC).


 * https://books.google.nl/books?id=qhzRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=korean+arrowhead+coin&source=bl&ots=ZiSpO5zTkT&sig=RPrsZL-FobHzwYsTaxQ69JV28iM&hl=en&ei=rgqmTcvyK6LA0QHspPHnCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:09, 29 September 2019 (UTC).


 * http://www.busanddadang.com/joseons-economic-system/?ckattempt=1 ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:54, 30 September 2019 (UTC).