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Sangpyeong Tongbo

AD 1678–　・　bronze　・　17th century　・　Korea (Joseon)

Sangpyeong Tongbo（obverse）
The Government Tithe Office (均役廳). / Public domain（Wikimedia Commons）

The copper cash of the Joseon dynasty. Its name, 'ever level', is a wish for steady prices, and it circulated for two hundred years. It carries the ideal of what money should be in the name itself.

Diameter 25mm