1 Cash - Huangsong Tongbao, Tin imitation

Huangsong Tongbao cash coins were produced during the Huangsong reign period of the Northern Song emperor Renzong, from 1049 to 1054. Tin imitations of Chinese cash circulated widely across the Malay peninsula and Indonesian archipelago as local substitutes, produced by regional mints or workshops filling a chronic shortage of genuine copper coinage. The originals were never struck in great quantity, making them an unusual choice of prototype — whoever selected this type likely worked from whatever example was locally available.